9 Apr 2021
CHIN KAM CHIU v. FTI CONSULTING, INC AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2021] HKCA 464
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV114/2020
The Court held there was no possibility the grounds of appeal could be argued: the statutory duty claim was based on a fundamental misunderstanding of qualification requirements for expert evidence under the PAO and was doomed to fail; the malicious prosecution claim failed because the defendants did not initiate the prosecution, there was no pleaded absence of reasonable and probable cause or malice and the pleading lacked necessary particularity; amendment would not cure the defects; accordingly the notice of appeal was struck out, the appeal dismissed and costs awarded to the defendants (s…