6 Nov 2019
CHEUNG PING SUM v. WONG CHI HANG, as administrator of the estate of WONG SUN, deceased
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 2738
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1490/2016
The court construed s.17(3) of the Legal Aid Ordinance broadly to allow personal costs orders against an aided person where there is impropriety in bringing, defending or conducting proceedings — including deliberate abuse of legal aid through conduct that wastes an opponent's costs or giving false evidence knowingly — and on the facts found the Son had acted improperly so that a costs order nisi making him personally liable was justified.