18 Sept 2001
BEST & BEST INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LTD. v. RICHARD TAI & CO., SOLICITORS (A FIRM) AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- BEST & BEST INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LTD. v. RICHARD TAI & CO., SOLICITORS (A FIRM) AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV143/2001
The appeal was dismissed; Kwan J's orders were upheld: the solicitors were correctly directed to pay the stakeholder sum into court (net of assessed costs), and the factual and legal question whether Mr Lam Wai Hong is a shareholder (and therefore entitled to the loan) must be tried in the Court of First Instance together with a determination whether the originating summons was validly authorised; the appeal that circumvented required procedural steps was an abuse of process.