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Hong Kong Case Law

Defendant absence
  • 4 Jun 2025

    林鵬飛 對 陳偉明

    Citation
    [2025] HKCFI 2726
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA1458/2017

    Adjournment was refused because the defendant failed to produce sufficient contemporaneous medical evidence demonstrating incapacity to attend; he had been properly served and there was evidence he was not in hospital; refusal was proportionate given prejudice to plaintiff, and therefore the adjournment application was dismissed and the defendant's counterclaim withdrawn with costs to the plaintiff.