30 May 2003
MONG MAN WAI v. H H LAU & CO (a firm)
- Citation
- MONG MAN WAI v. H H LAU & CO (a firm)
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP3009/2002
Court held it had jurisdiction to order delivery of a bill for counsel's fees paid by the client because such payments can be treated as made on behalf of the solicitor; section 58 did not apply to the defendant's relied documents because they lacked the necessary writing/signature formalities; oral settlement did not bar taxation; special circumstances (prima facie gross overcharging) existed only in relation to three lump-sum profit-cost items and those three sums were ordered referred to taxation only; delivery of a bill for the remaining unpaid counsel's fees was ordered within 28 days; o…