Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Expert evidence (order 38)

Legal area

Court

31 Dec 2018

PANG NINA WAI KIT v. WOO HON MING

Citation

[2018] HKCFI 2736
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA1405/2017

Plaintiff failed to prove actionable loss: Provisional Agreement I afforded refund of deposits on rescission and contained no entitlement to recover a price-difference loss or legal costs; expert valuation evidence was inadmissible without directions; by nomination plaintiff ceased to have an interest in the subsequent purchase so she did not suffer the alleged loss; claim for damages dismissed.
24 Oct 2014

MAN MI SANG AND ANOTHER v. MAN SHEK TONG AND OTHERS

Citation

MAN MI SANG AND ANOTHER v. MAN SHEK TONG AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA881/2012

The court held that the plaintiffs failed the necessity and proportionality limbs for wide-ranging specific discovery; only the Minutes Book entry recording the 1 November 2009 resolution authorizing two managers to handle tenancy matters was relevant and necessary and therefore must be disclosed. All other discovery requests (other minutes, Accounts, Bank Statements, tenancy agreements) were dismissed as irrelevant or disproportionate. The defendants' application to admit a supplemental expert report was dismissed because the report was out of time, deviated from the court's express directio…