Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Billing practices

Legal area

Court

28 Jan 2022

HUI (ANNIE) GUO v. YUEDONG XU AND OTHERS

Citation

[2022] HKCFI 368
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCCL3/2019

The judge exercised the court's discretion on security for costs, found the defendants' bills and estimates to be excessive and inconsistent with evidence of duplication and inflated counsel fees, and ordered additional security of HK$5.5 million (in light of an existing HK$1.6 million already paid) as a realistic and reasonable sum.
2 Feb 2010

YEUNG YEUK SUT v. TSE CHUN YIP AND OTHERS

Citation

YEUNG YEUK SUT v. TSE CHUN YIP AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA682/2006

The retainer was a lawful time‑rate agreement and not a contingency fee arrangement; the Office Bill, not the Revised Bill, represented the clients' liability to their solicitors; the Taxation Bill sought amounts in excess of that liability and therefore breached the indemnity principle; an item‑by‑item comparison is required to quantify the overreach and the parties must produce agreed figures for the Registrar's approval.