30 Oct 2020
CHARLES C. SPACKMAN AND ANOTHER v. SANG CHEOL WOO
- Citation
- [2020] HKCFI 2748
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA571/2019
The court found material nondisclosures in the plaintiffs' ex parte applications — primarily the misrepresentation about which NY Proceedings Documents were sent to which recipients and the failure to disclose a likely argument that Mr Spackman controlled SMG — and held those omissions were material to the jurisdictional assessment and the appropriateness of Hong Kong as forum; accordingly the orders granting leave to serve out and substituted service and the interlocutory default judgment were set aside, but limited leave was regranted to SMG in respect of the NY Memorandum published to five…