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The High Court allowed a foreign judgment creditor’s appeal, set aside a Master’s security-for-costs order, dismissed the defendant’s summons, and awarded costs to the plaintiffs.
The court refused security for costs, finding overlapping proceedings and the plaintiffs’ CSI shares plus an undertaking made it unjust to order security.
The court ordered the applicant to provide HK$200,000 security for costs in a family provision claim, with proceedings stayed until security was given.
Court of First Instance refused security for costs in three related actions, accepting the plaintiff was foreign but finding delay and limited Hong Kong assets made security unjust.
Application for security for costs by a Hong Kong defendant against a Singapore plaintiff was refused, despite foreign residence, because of delay and the nature of the assets.
The court discharged a worldwide Mareva injunction in aid of enforcement of Ontario maintenance orders, finding material non-disclosure, misrepresentation, lies, and breach of undertaking.
The court dismissed a setting-aside summons against a judgment summons used to enforce a foreign maintenance order, and restored the enforcement hearing.
The court fixed security for costs at HK$300,000, adjourned the balance pending the plaintiffs’ decision on enforcing a Delaware judgment, and ordered costs on a strike-out application.
The court dismissed the late challenge to the 2009 refusal but quashed the 2014 refusal to register Ontario maintenance orders, remitting the matter for reconsideration.
The Court of Appeal refused security for costs in an appeal from an arbitral award challenge, finding no special circumstances and no basis to infer impecuniosity.
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