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Hong Kong Case Law

New evidence application

  • 8 Dec 2025

    成都圆中侨信商贸有限公司 v. LEUNG KA CHUN

    Citation
    [2025] HKCA 1052
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV467/2024

    The court concluded the Debtor is impecunious and there is a real risk of difficulty enforcing costs; the Debtor produced no evidence of means and the skeleton bill sufficiently set out incurred and estimated costs; countervailing factors (merits only arguable, delay not fatal, no evidence of purpose to stifle appeal) were insufficient to refuse security; accordingly the court exercised its discretion to order security for costs on a party‑and‑party assessment and fixed security at HK$385,000 with stay and dismissal consequences for non‑payment, and awarded the Petitioner costs of the applica…

  • 26 Jul 2024

    香港特別行政區 訴 李德山

    Citation
    [2024] HKCFI 1021
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCMA246/2021

    The trial judge's findings that the appellant's trial testimony was unreliable and that his recorded confession (P13) was proved were entitled to full weight; on re‑hearing of the evidence the prosecution proved all elements of fraud beyond reasonable doubt; the application to admit fresh evidence was properly refused because the documents could and should have been produced at trial and would not have altered the verdict.