20 May 2015
CIL HOLDINGS LTD v. KWOK HAN QIAO formerly known as KWOK WAI TAK EDWARD
- Citation
- CIL HOLDINGS LTD v. KWOK HAN QIAO formerly known as KWOK WAI TAK EDWARD
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FAMV62/2014
Leave to appeal was refused because the Court of Final Appeal concluded there was no point of law of sufficient general importance: dismissals for want of prosecution are discretionary and properly subject to the 'plainly wrong' appellate standard; the Court of Appeal correctly applied that standard and was entitled to find that the judge below was plainly wrong in failing to recognise that lengthy inexcusable delay had caused prejudice by depriving the defendant of potentially important witness evidence, creating a substantial risk of no fair trial.