29 Oct 2010
CHAN YIN HA v. CHIU PAK WANG LEO
- Citation
- CHAN YIN HA v. CHIU PAK WANG LEO
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI805/2003
The Master refused the review and upheld the taxation rulings after applying HKCP principles: fees are allowed unless excessive; specific items were reallocated or reduced under party-and-party principles. The Master allowed specified brief fees and refreshers as reasonable given the complexity and work done, transferred certain site-visit and second-day witness meeting fees to the common fund, disallowed excessive items, allowed modest counsel assistance at taxation ($12,000), and ordered costs of the review to follow the event with defendants' costs to be borne by the plaintiff and Director…