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Hong Kong Case Law

Contempt sentencing

  • 22 Jul 2025

    K v. A

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 3602
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP2186/2021

    Respondent knowingly disobeyed two injunction orders protecting HVD; Count 1 was partly purged (purge dated 2 July 2021) reducing the starting custodial sentence from one month to two weeks; Count 2 was not purged and was more serious so the starting point of two months was reduced to six weeks; sentences to run concurrently; costs of sentencing to be paid by respondent to applicant on an indemnity basis and bail granted pending appeal.

  • 16 Apr 2021

    CARTIER INTERNATIONAL AG AND OTHERS v. DYNASTY JEWELRY (HONG KONG) LTD AND OTHERS

    Citation
    [2021] HKCFI 1005
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMP704/2018

    The court found the defendants deliberately and intentionally breached clear disclosure and injunction orders, that the breaches were serious and caused prejudice to the plaintiffs, the contempt was unpurged and mitigation was limited; accordingly the court imposed custodial sentences of six weeks each on the 2nd and 3rd defendants, fined the corporate defendant HK$250,000 payable within 21 days, and ordered the defendants to pay plaintiffs' costs on an indemnity basis with certificate for two counsel.

  • 20 Nov 2019

    李 對 張

    Citation
    [2019] HKFC 297
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC4305/2013

    Respondent was found to have wilfully concealed a mainland asset and deliberately failed to pay court-ordered maintenance despite having capacity to pay; no mitigating factors or effective purge acts existed; therefore imprisonment was appropriate: two weeks for failure to disclose and ten weeks for persistent non-payment, ordered to be executed consecutively (total 12 weeks); interest on arrears and assessed costs awarded; committal orders to be rendered ineffective if all arrears, interest and costs are paid.

  • 27 Feb 2009

    ORIENTAL DAILY PUBLISHER LTD AND ANOTHER v. MA CHIU SING

    Citation
    ORIENTAL DAILY PUBLISHER LTD AND ANOTHER v. MA CHIU SING
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV304/2008

    The court upheld that the defendant committed multiple deliberate breaches warranting committal for contempt but applied the totality principle and concluded the aggregate 42‑week custodial sentence was manifestly excessive; the appeal was allowed to the extent of reducing/substituting the sentence and ordering immediate release to correct the disproportionate total.