22 Dec 2022
KO WAI FAN 對 TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS
- Citation
- [2022] HKDC 1442
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEC2142/2018
Because the respondent's early payment on terms exceeded the eventual award by several times and the applicant unreasonably refused it without disclosure of new material, the court exercised its discretion under Order 22 rule 23 to (a) deny interest on the compensation after the payment-on-terms date, (b) order the applicant to pay respondent's costs incurred after that date on an indemnity basis with interest at a rate 5% above the judgment rate for the pre-compliance period and judgment rate thereafter, (c) require the respondent to pay one-third of pre-payment-on-terms costs to the applica…