23 May 2007
CHOW KEE JAMES t/a TAPBO CIVIL ENGINEERING CO v. TRANSWAY CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING LTD t/a WO KEE CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING CO
- Citation
- CHOW KEE JAMES t/a TAPBO CIVIL ENGINEERING CO v. TRANSWAY CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING LTD t/a WO KEE CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING CO
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCT11/2006
The court exercised its discretion to depart from an absolute follow‑the‑event order because the parties advanced discrete claims and the time attributable to successful and unsuccessful issues could be differentiated; having regard to late concessions by Tapbo and absence of improper conduct by Wo Kee, the nisi order was varied to award Wo Kee one quarter of its costs and Tapbo one quarter of its costs, to be netted off, and Wo Kee to have the costs of this costs hearing (with costs of an unpursued arithmetic challenge disregarded).