16 Jul 2018
GLORY SKY FINANCE LTD v. CHEN JIANHUA AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 1657
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP2482/2014
The appeal was dismissed. The judge held the master did not err in law or act unreasonably in awarding the costs of the contested hearing to the defendants because the plaintiff unreasonably failed to consent to the defendants' amendments at the case management conference despite being put in possession of the proposed amended pleading and sufficient explanation; consequently the plaintiff was the ultimate cause of the hearing and liable for those costs, while the usual order that the defendants bear the costs of and occasioned by the amendments remains appropriate.