11 May 2001
YIP WING HONG v. MAEDA CORPORATION
- Citation
- YIP WING HONG v. MAEDA CORPORATION
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCPI518/2000
Section 27 was disapplied because the plaintiff's delay was short and explicable (serious injury and subsequent cancer and diligent repeated attempts to obtain legal aid), the plaintiff has a good arguable case supported by employees' compensation admissions and defendant's alleged prejudicial inability to defend was largely self‑inflicted given prior employees' compensation proceedings that should have prompted preservation of evidence; balancing of prejudice favoured allowing the action to proceed.