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Hong Kong Case Law

Admissibility of lay opinion
  • 31 Jul 2020

    HO WAI TUNG v. HO FUNG

    Citation
    [2020] HKCFI 1787
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI1334/2016

    The court exercised case management discretion to grant leave in part: it struck out an identified mistaken phrase from the original witness statement, disallowed specified parts of the proposed supplemental statement as inadmissible opinion/speculation/argument, and granted leave to serve a redacted supplemental witness statement within a fixed short deadline while permitting the defendant a right to serve reply witness evidence and seek further expert reports; costs of the summons were ordered to the defendant.