4 Jun 2020
VITALY ORLOV v. MAGNUS LEONARD ROTH AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2020] HKCFI 1072
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1331/2017
The court treated the court-appointed valuer's function in these proceedings as effectively quasi-judicial because the valuation constituted the quantum phase of a split trial, required receipt of submissions on an all-informed basis and produced a final binding reasoned report capable of being made an order of the Court; applying the reasonable apprehension of bias test, the undisclosed prior engagement of the same firm (FTI UK) by Roth in related English proceedings was a material circumstance which would lead a fair-minded and informed observer to conclude there was a real possibility of b…