Hong Kong Case Law: Decisions & Judgments | LexChat

Topic

Forgery and authenticity of documents

Legal area

Court

4 Nov 2022

CHEN JINHUI v. WONG KAM SAN (黃錦新), by his guardian ad litem, HUANG YUEXIA (黃月霞) AND OTHERS

Citation

[2022] HKCA 1522
Court

Court of Appeal
Case number

CACV173/2021

The court applied Ladd v Marshall strictly to pre-trial evidence and refused to relax reasonable diligence absent a reasonable prospect that the judgment was obtained by fraud attributable to the plaintiff; it refused to admit most proposed items (Receipt, Items 1-22, Exhibit ZRW-32) for lack of reasonable diligence, materiality or credibility, but exercised discretion to admit Item 23 (post-trial Chen declaration and related documents) for the appeals (weight reserved for substantive hearing) and granted limited leave to the 1st-3rd Defendants to adduce Item 2(23). Costs ordered against defe…
20 Jan 2021

FEISHANG NON METAL MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED ( now known as “HANGKAN GROUP LIMITED” v. TONG CHUNG MING t/a KAI MUK CO.

Citation

[2021] HKCFI 117
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA1767/2018

Court found the 4 January 2018 letter and the March receipts were not genuine or did not prove repayment; accepted that HK$500,000 was paid in January 2018 as interim repayment; held the Termination Agreement dated 16 March 2018 was valid and that the defendant failed to pay the balance of HK$8,530,000; entered judgment for the plaintiff for HK$8,530,000 with interest and costs.