17 Nov 2023
WOO WING CHI AND ANOTHER v. CHAN SHUN CHING JOSEPHINE
- Citation
- [2023] HKDC 1610
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ299/2022
The expungement application was dismissed because the contested WhatsApp communications were intended to be open and thus not protected by without prejudice privilege, and separately were waived by failure to object earlier; leave to file a late fourth affidavit and uplift the legal aid stay were refused as unjustified and late; the defendant failed to prove lack of actual notice so the default judgment was regular on service grounds but, on consideration of the merits, there was a real prospect regarding the 2nd declaration that it was a loan evidenced by contemporaneous messages and payment…