12 Aug 2022
The application for leave to appeal was dismissed because the applicant relied on factual challenges and fresh evidence that were either not explained or not shown to meet the Ladd v Marshall threshold and the contested factual findings were not shown to be plainly wrong; therefore the proposed appeal had no reasonable prospect of success under s63A(2).
25 Oct 2000
The Court of Appeal found the trial judge's assessment materially flawed (failure to account for wife's new earnings and errors in asset characterization), substituted its own assessment, reduced the monthly maintenance payable by the husband for the children to HK$20,000, limited the wife's entitlement in respect of the husband's gratuity to 50% of the gratuity payable at the end of his current contract, ordered transfer of the wife's interest in the endowment policy to the husband, and set aside the blanket firm disqualification while preventing a specific solicitor from acting.