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Hong Kong Case Law

Fraud/misleading court
  • 20 Jun 2008

    FHFK v. NCM

    Citation
    FHFK v. NCM
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV182/2007

    The substituted service order and resultant decrees were obtained by means that misled the court (fraud or material non-disclosure) and therefore the proceedings were voidable; the respondent was an innocent party deprived of the opportunity to defend, and in the exercise of the court's discretion the substituted service order, the decree nisi and the decree absolute were set aside despite the husband's remarriage.