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Hong Kong Case Law

Entry of default judgment
  • 7 Feb 2022

    賴容 對 何韋律師行

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 293
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI201/2021

    The court found the plaintiff's amended statement of claim disclosed no reasonable cause of action and was an abuse of process because it sought effectively to re-litigate matters already decided in earlier proceedings (HCPI 219/2013 and HCPI 705/2017); the plaintiff produced no admissible evidence that the doctor had admitted falsification or that the defendant concealed such admissions; the court had previously granted the defendant leave to file a defence so default judgment was not available; accordingly the claim was struck out and the interlocutory applications by the plaintiff were dis…