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Hong Kong Case Law

Negligence in mail delivery
  • 18 Jul 2022

    香港特別行政區 訴 洪旭暉

    Citation
    [2022] HKCFI 2108
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA167/2022

    The court accepted the appellant's credible sworn evidence that he did not receive the Form 2 notice and that non-receipt resulted from postal misdelivery rather than the appellant's negligence because he had a locked mailbox at his correct address and had reported prior misdeliveries to building management; the lower court imposed an unduly onerous requirement that the appellant escalate complaints to the post office or rent a PO box. Consequently the s3A(1) order for payment was revoked under s3B(1).