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Hong Kong Case Law

Litigation funding/legal costs provision
  • 11 May 2020

    B N P also known as S S N v. B P

    Citation
    [2020] HKFC 100
    Court
    Family Court
    Case number
    FCMC8191/2019

    Applying a broad-brush assessment of the wife and children’s immediate reasonable needs, the husband’s undertakings and the evidence that family companies materially supplemented family expenditure, the court found the wife’s original budget excessive and inadequately evidenced but concluded the husband has greater capacity to pay than stated. The court therefore ordered maintenance pending suit of HK$51,000 per month to the wife, HK$40,000 per month for the two children, and monthly litigation funding of HK$55,000 to the wife’s solicitors, with undertakings to continue and costs of the appli…