12 Jul 2013
GRANT DAVID VINCENT WILLIAMS v. JEFFERIES HONG KONG LTD
- Citation
- GRANT DAVID VINCENT WILLIAMS v. JEFFERIES HONG KONG LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA320/2011
The judge awarded indemnity costs because the defendant conducted the litigation unreasonably: it proceeded on a false premise that the plaintiff authored the subtitles, misrepresented and diluted its vetting/checking process, withheld key e-mails and records, publicised misleading reasons to clients, and sought to intimidate the plaintiff with an inflated bill and security for costs; those facts justified displacing proportionality scrutiny and awarding costs on an indemnity basis.