7 Sept 2018
THE INCORPORATED OWNERS OF SHUN CHI COURT 對 SKILLAND ENGINEERING SERVICES (HK) LTD
- Citation
- [2018] HKDC 1065
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ271/2018
The court granted summary judgment for the plaintiff on the dishonoured cheques because the defendant failed to establish any credible special reason or conditional basis to avoid honouring the cheques; contemporaneous meeting recordings did not establish that the cheques were conditional or merely security to be set off against the 11th interim payment certificate. The defendant's counterclaim did not constitute a lawful defence to the cheque claim and was not so vexatious or an abuse as to warrant striking it out; the plaintiff's strike-out application failed for lack of supporting affidavi…