20 Jan 2026
The court granted leave to apply for judicial review on the papers and directed the parties to liaise and propose jointly agreed directions and a tight timetable leading to a substantive hearing, granted liberty to apply and reserved all questions of costs.
2 Dec 2025
The court has jurisdiction under its inherent powers and the 'liberty to apply' provision to amend/clarify the prior order by specifying the boundary co-ordinates of the Lot to reflect the court's original intention and to facilitate enforcement; accordingly the summons was granted and coordinates were specified, and costs were awarded to the plaintiff.
16 Oct 2024
Leave to appeal was refused because the proposed appeal had no reasonable prospect of success; the Costs Order was neither wrong in principle nor plainly wrong. The court held it was justified to order costs personally against the joint liquidators because they unjustifiably and unsuccessfully opposed the Summons to implement prior orders and their conduct was poor/unreasonable; accordingly costs followed the event and were summarily assessed at HK$90,000 payable to the Plaintiffs forthwith.
4 Jun 2024
The court exercised its discretion to grant the variation because the Judgments are undisputed and predate the injunction, CCL (the plaintiff) consented, there is no overlapping question with the discharge summons, the variation removes uncertainty and protects the defendant from perceptions of preferential conduct, and no prejudice to CCL or other creditors was shown sufficient to refuse variation.
27 Dec 2023
A court that has sealed and perfected an order is functus officio and lacks jurisdiction to set it aside except within the established categories (manifest intention, clerical slip, liberty to apply, statutory rules); the present application did not fall within any such category and therefore the Summons to set aside the sealed Order was dismissed.
12 Sept 2023
The consent order contained an express, clear, mechanical mechanism for determining the reserve price (initial reserve of HK$270m with automatic 5% reductions every 98 days). That mechanism required no further 'working out' so the liberty to apply did not authorize the court to alter the substantive agreed reserve. An implied term permitting market‑linked adjustment would contradict the express terms and amount to rewriting the parties' agreement. Therefore the court lacked jurisdiction to reduce the reserve price and the plaintiff's variation application was dismissed.
17 May 2022
Court has jurisdiction under 'liberty to apply' to implement and assess compliance with a consent order but not to vary undertakings; disclosure ordered to obtain evidence of past non-compliance must be intrinsically justifiable and necessary for enforcement — here it was not; payments must be deposited into the account specified by the consent order, and H was ordered to pay the calculated arrears into that account; an oral invitation for a Hadkinson order without a summons and affidavit evidence is refused.
3 Sept 2021
The Tribunal has jurisdiction under the Ordinance and appellate authority to grant extensions and re-fix reserve prices, but the exercise of that discretion requires credible evidence of material change in market value; the applicants failed to adduce such evidence and mere failure to bid at auction is insufficient, therefore the summons to extend and re-fix the reserve price was dismissed.
26 Feb 2021
The court had no jurisdiction to reopen and vary its earlier order to compel disclosure of passcodes and there is no statutory or common law power to force plaintiffs to provide Security Information; therefore the defendant's application to compel disclosure was dismissed.
26 Feb 2021
The defendant's application to compel plaintiffs to provide Security Information and to vary the earlier order is dismissed for want of jurisdiction to reopen and vary the order; alternatively, there is no statutory or common law power to compel such disclosure and the defendant has not established exceptional circumstances or a material change of circumstances to justify variation.