17 Nov 2011
CHAN MING HUNG v. SUM CHOI WAN CHAU AND OTHERS
- Citation
- CHAN MING HUNG v. SUM CHOI WAN CHAU AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA907/2009
Registrar refused the application for a bilingual judge because the defendants failed to demonstrate necessity: the plaintiffs counsel cannot read Chinese so translation is required in any event; parties identified approximately 80 pages of Chinese documents likely to be necessary (from an original 183); estimated translation cost and time did not justify appointing a bilingual judge; consequently translation and allocation of costs is the proportionate remedy and the application is dismissed.