27 Sept 2019
KWONG CHI WA v. CHAN KWONG CHEUNG JACK t/a WK LOGISTICS CO AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2019] HKDC 1309
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEC1210/2018
The court found it was reasonable for the applicant to join the 3rd respondent because the 1st respondent had affirmatively represented the 3rd respondent was his principal contractor in Form 2 and a Labour Department declaration and failed to reply to a pre-action letter; those circumstances justified departing from the general rule that the applicant pays costs on discontinuance, and because of practical considerations including risk of 1st respondent's insolvency and preservation of the applicant's modest sanctioned award, a Sanderson order was appropriate requiring the 1st respondent to p…