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Hong Kong Case Law

Counterclaim/offset
  • 7 Mar 2025

    林鎮星 對 林秀霞

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 937
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCSD39/2023

    The application was dismissed because the applicant's purported counterclaim had been struck out and withdrawn and therefore could not operate as an offset; earlier findings in related proceedings disposed of the applicant's allegations of wrongful retention and false statements; even excluding the three potentially improper items, the remaining indebtedness of $118,000 supported enforcement; given the respondent's withdrawal and the applicant's unmeritorious grounds, the appropriate course was to make no order (including no costs order) in respect of the application.