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Repayment of interim payment
  • 1 Sept 2021

    TSE LAI SING V. TUNG WAH GROUP OF HOSPITALS

    Citation
    [2021] HKDC 1095
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCEC1754/2016

    Applicant failed to obtain a judgment better than the sanctioned payment and put forward no basis to displace the mandatory consequence in Order 22 r 23; therefore the court ordered costs on party-and-party basis up to 17 October 2016 and indemnity costs from 18 October 2016, awarded enhanced interest on costs at 6.5% per annum from 18 October 2016 to 31 May 2021 (then judgment rate), disallowed interest on the assessed compensation after 17 October 2016, ordered repayment of the $9,027.93 overpaid interim payment, and granted leave to release the remaining sanctioned payment of $12,956.17 to…