15 Sept 2025
CHUNG YING BUILDING MATERIALS COMPANY LTD (in Liquidation) v. CHOW WAI LAM, WILLIAM AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2025] HKCFI 4279
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA656/2019
The court exercised its discretion to dismiss the Plaintiff's summons to vary the Costs Order Nisi and made the Costs Order Nisi absolute because the Applications were not sufficiently severable from the two outstanding applications, apportionment of costs was likely to be contentious (including involvement of D4 only in the Applications), and practical justice required allowing set-off or concurrent taxation by the same taxing master; however, the court ordered on a nisi basis that costs of the Plaintiff's summons be to the 1st to 3rd and 6th Defendants and the 4th Defendant, to be summarily…