16 Sept 2019
CHAN KWOK KUEN v. ACTIONSPORTS INTERNATIONAL LTD
- Citation
- [2019] HKDC 1205
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCPI1985/2013
The defendant's persistent, unsupported and in some respects contradictory allegations of fraud and its oppressive communications justified an order for costs to be taxed on an indemnity basis; however the plaintiff's two settlement letters did not strictly comply with Order 22 r 5 and therefore were not sanctioned offers under Order 22 and could not attract the enhanced costs or interest consequences of Order 22 r 24; accordingly the court awarded standard statutory interest rates and indemnity costs for the whole action and made an order nisi regarding interest-and-costs-related costs on a…