23 Dec 2020
LAU KOON YING MATTHEW as the Executor of the estate of LAU YIU WING, deceased (“the Deceased”) v. LAU TARK WING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2020] HKCFI 3129
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2305/2012
The Order Nisi was varied to require the plaintiff to pay 75% of the defendants' costs of and incidental to the appeal because the successful ground (Ground 1) occupied the majority of hearing time and submissions; the Master's costs order for the taking of account summons was left undisturbed because, on the Master's findings and the unsatisfactory state of the defendants' evidence, the appropriate order would still have been to award costs to the plaintiff even if defendants had prevailed on the compound interest point; plaintiff also ordered to pay 50% of defendants' costs of their summons…