Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Delay and staleness

Legal area

Court

9 Dec 2025

張朝喜 v. 香港高等法院 AND OTHERS

Citation

[2025] HKCFI 5795
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCAL184/2018

Proceedings dismissed because judicial review was an inappropriate vehicle for long‑expired Labour Tribunal claims and Registrar appeals, the applicant failed to identify public law grounds, and the application was stale and abandoned; the court exercised case management discretion to dismiss in light of significant unexplained delay.
27 Aug 2021

CHU KONG AND ANOTHER v. LAU WING YAN AND OTHERS

Citation

[2021] HKCA 1251
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CAMP151/2021

Leave to appeal was refused because the judge properly exercised his discretion: the Chu Camp delayed unreasonably such that matters were stale; the purported 'new findings' were not materially new; the ex parte application involved material non‑disclosure of prior court processes; there was no real risk of dissipation warranting Mareva relief; a proprietary injunction over estimated profits was not justified; indemnity costs were appropriate given the conduct and abuse of ex parte process.