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Topic

Recourse factoring

Legal area

Court

15 Oct 2008

IFS CAPITAL LTD v. HUNG KIN LAM AND ANOTHER t/a CHI TAT ENTERPRISE CO (a firm)

Citation

IFS CAPITAL LTD v. HUNG KIN LAM AND ANOTHER t/a CHI TAT ENTERPRISE CO (a firm)
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA1080/2007

Despite the late application, consolidation and a joint trial were ordered because the two actions share substantial common factual and legal issues, the same key witnesses and experts will be called in both, and consolidation is necessary to allow proper testing of witness credibility and expert opinion and to avoid needless duplication and expense; lateness is addressed by costs in the cause.
15 Oct 2008

IFS CAPITAL LTD v. TEC-HILL SEMICONDUCTOR LTD

Citation

IFS CAPITAL LTD v. TEC-HILL SEMICONDUCTOR LTD
Court

Court of First Instance
Case number

HCA1081/2007

Despite the tardiness of the defendants' application, the judge granted consolidation because the common factual and legal issues, the shared witnesses and experts, and the significant risk of unfairness from separate credibility and expert determinations outweighed the lateness; consequential directions were given for a single joint trial to start in December and continue to completion in March, with costs ordered in the cause.