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  • 30 Dec 2014

    JIN WEI CHENG v. UBS AG

    Citation
    JIN WEI CHENG v. UBS AG
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA632/2012

    Because the defendant delayed and obfuscated answers to interrogatories, failed to serve supporting affidavits in a timely manner, and only provided material disclosure in Cheng's 3rd Affidavit (2 Sep 2014) which removed the need for most interrogatories, the court exercised its discretion: defendant must bear plaintiff’s costs of the Application up to 2 Sep 2014 and the plaintiff must bear defendant’s costs after that date; the Costs Order Nisi was affirmed and made absolute and the defendant’s costs summons was dismissed with an order that the defendant pay the plaintiff’s costs for that su…