26 Jan 2022
MAYER HOLDINGS LTD v. XU LIDI AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2022] HKCFI 275
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA17/2022
Leave to serve the writ outside jurisdiction was refused because the plaintiff failed to show a good arguable case that the alleged oral Accountability Agreement was concluded in Hong Kong or that Hong Kong law was the law governing the contract by implication, and in any event Hong Kong was not clearly the appropriate forum given that the dispute centrally concerns PRC-incorporated companies and PRC company seals governed by PRC law and involving third-party minority shareholders and a PRC-governed Bamian Agreement; accordingly the Court declined to exercise discretion to allow service out a…