21 Mar 2012
WONG WING ON WILLIAM RONALD v. YAU PAK MAN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- WONG WING ON WILLIAM RONALD v. YAU PAK MAN AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV33/2009
The judge's award of indemnity costs and assessment on the High Court scale was set aside because the judge had misapprehended material facts about the applicant and 1st/2nd respondents' sincere reliance on earlier divided legal advice, making indemnity costs inappropriate; there was no reasoned basis for High Court scale; substantial prolongation of the trial by inordinate cross-examination justified reducing the 3rd–10th respondents' recoverable costs by half. Consequently the court ordered party-and-party costs on the District Court scale with specified apportionments.
- Indemnity costs
- Costs scale (high court vs district court)
- Contribution notices
- Wilful negligence
- Abuse of process
- Control of cross-examination