7 Jul 2011
CHUI PUI KUN v. CHUI WAI KWAN
- Citation
- CHUI PUI KUN v. CHUI WAI KWAN
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2339/2009
The court allowed the Amendment Application to re-amend the petition (with consequential directions for filing evidence) because opposition was not pressed and the court accepts limited exceptions to a strict bar on post-petition amendments; the court refused CWK's application to defer or consolidate the Defamation Action with the petitions because the issues for jury and judge were materially different, the Defamation Action was trial-ready while the petitions were not, and it would be inappropriate to deprive a party of its jury trial rights or to risk confusing the jury by reliance on judg…