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Topic

Limitation period (time bar)

Legal area

Court

31 Jan 2022

YINGGAO RESOURCES LTD AND ANOTHER v. THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LTD

Citation

[2022] HKCFI 306
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA329/2015

Master allowed only the amendments relating to Addition 1 (the Gold Mining Agreement losses) because (1) on the three-stage limitation analysis the GMA pleadings were not, as a matter of law, bound to be time‑barred or to constitute a new cause of action for either the contract claim or the tort claim, and (2) the pleaded causation and remoteness issues could not be said at amendment stage to make the claim bound to fail; Additions 2–4 were not permitted.
30 May 2001

GREYLAND TRADING LTD. AND ANOTHER v. LAU CHUN MING STEPHEN AND OTHERS

Citation

GREYLAND TRADING LTD. AND ANOTHER v. LAU CHUN MING STEPHEN AND OTHERS
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA8833/1991

On the balance of probabilities the court found Champ Fair supplied defective goods in the 1991 and 1992 seasons; plaintiffs proved losses attributable to those defects sufficient to set off part of the defendant's unpaid-invoice counterclaim, resulting in a net judgment for the plaintiffs, with interest and costs awarded accordingly.