17 Jan 2018
CHEUNG PING SUM v. WONG CHI HANG
- Citation
- [2018] HKCFI 70
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA289/2017
The application to strike out was dismissed. The court found no abuse of process or res judicata because the earlier estate action remains pending and the harassment issues either had not arisen at the interlocutory stage or are not identical; on the face of the pleadings the harassment claim discloses a reasonable cause of action because the pleaded acts and their continuous effects could amount to a sufficiently repetitive course of conduct and recklessness was pleaded; the claim was not scandalous, frivolous or vexatious. Accordingly the claim should proceed to trial and consolidation was…