11 Apr 2022
YOE HAN YAUW v. YOE HAN HIAN AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2022] HKCA 498
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV19/2021
The Deputy Judge erred in law and was plainly wrong in awarding all costs to the respondents because the applicant obtained the principal relief (disclosure and inspection under s.740) and respondents' prior unreasonable refusal to provide documents warranted awarding costs to the applicant up to the Hearing; the applicant's unreasonable insistence on a search order did not, in context, justify making him pay all costs; accordingly the Costs Order was set aside and substituted: respondents to pay costs up to the Hearing to applicant, no order as to costs for the Hearing, and respondents to pa…