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Hong Kong Case Law

Form of agreement
  • 8 Apr 2019

    FAST BILLION HOLDINGS LTD v. SUN PUI YUK

    Citation
    [2019] HKCFI 886
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA2984/2015

    The court found on the evidence that the parties had agreed an additional undisclosed upfront interest (HK$60,000) in respect of the Second Loan and that the plaintiff misappropriated the surplus from the second disbursement rather than accounting for or returning it; the nondisclosure breached s18 of the Money Lenders Ordinance, the plaintiff's post‑litigation recharacterisation of the surplus as a reduction of principal was an afterthought, and the court preferred the defendant's evidence on the existence of the undisclosed upfront interest.