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Hong Kong Case Law

Digital evidence cloning
  • 29 Mar 2019

    MCLARENS HONG KONG LTD v. POON CHI FAI, COREY AND OTHERS

    Citation
    [2019] HKCFI 874
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA514/2019

    The court adjourned the matter to substantive hearing but granted amended interim undertakings sufficient to ring‑fence interests: accepting class‑based preambles rather than itemised particulars, requiring cloning of computers/external drives and deposit of clones with Supervising Solicitors, copying then deleting digital copies from originating equipment, replacing the word 'equipment' with 'digital copies' in §6, setting compliance deadline at 5pm on 18 April 2019, and declining to require a separate undertaking from D10 because that would unfairly expose it to breach by events beyond its…