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  • 25 May 2012

    FALCON INSURANCE CO (HONG KONG) LTD v. FLAGSHIP UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT LTD

    Citation
    FALCON INSURANCE CO (HONG KONG) LTD v. FLAGSHIP UNDERWRITING MANAGEMENT LTD
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA312/2010

    The appeal was allowed in part because there existed a triable issue that the defendant had in fact paid the Chin Hsing sum and that the plaintiff's conduct and contemporaneous communications raised an arguable case of ratification; no triable issue arose for the Shun De payment; restitutionary recovery failed for lack of legal compulsion; the defendant's Chin Hsing claim was neither dismissed on limitation grounds on summary judgment because section 23 acknowledgment raised a triable issue; and the Chin Hsing counterclaim is a legally cognizable, liquidated and mutual set-off entitling the d…