22 Mar 2019
LLC v. LMWA AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 347
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAMP143/2018
Leave to appeal was refused because the Family Court judge did not err in principle nor make a plainly wrong costs decision: the trial of the preliminary issue was properly treated as part of the matrimonial proceedings, the husband failed to engage constructively (including replying to a Calderbank offer), and the judge reasonably weighed the duty to negotiate, the financial impact on the family pot and proportionality; accordingly there was no real prospect of success on appeal and the husband was ordered to pay the wife's costs of this application fixed at HKD 300000.