11 Dec 2024
SANDHU JATINDER SINGH v. MA SHIU MING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2024] HKDC 2092
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCPI2647/2022
The Form 23 notices expressly indicated the payments related to part of the claim with explanatory note excluding property damage; read in context with D2's pleaded case and authorities, the three sanctioned payments of $450,000 were properly construed as relating only to the bodily injury claim. The adjudged bodily injury sum plus interest ($442,327.95) was less than $450,000, so P failed to obtain a judgment better than the sanctioned payments and the mandatory costs sanctions under O 22 r 23 apply: D2 must pay P costs up to 28 February 2023; P must pay D2's costs after that date on an inde…