8 Oct 2024
WONG KWEI PIU v. CHOW CHI CHEUNG t/a SUN LEE CO
- Citation
- [2024] HKDC 1637
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCEC1082/2017
The Director failed to establish a prima facie case of serious misconduct required for a wasted costs order; the conduct of the assigned lawyers, although criticised and amounting to negligence or error of judgment in parts, did not reach the threshold of impropriety or abuse of process. Significant causal responsibility for the costs predicament lay with the predecessor solicitor. Factual disputes and proportionality concerns made a second‑stage hearing inappropriate, so the summons was dismissed.