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  • 31 Mar 2026

    NPYJ v. SMRC

    Citation
    [2026] HKCA 572
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CAMP98/2024

    Leave to appeal refused because the court below’s case management and committal decisions had no reasonable prospect of being overturned: the judge had considered but permissibly rejected the medical evidence and reasonably concluded adjournment would be an abuse/delay; the finding that H breached the 8/11/22 order was supported by undisputed chronology and belated compliance; indemnity costs were within judicial discretion given the late purging of contempt; WhatsApp material was rightly expunged as confidential and irrelevant; and the newly pleaded bias ground was speculative and inadmissib…

  • 19 Jan 2007

    MOK LAI CHUN v. EVERWISE INVESTMENT LTD AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    MOK LAI CHUN v. EVERWISE INVESTMENT LTD AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV420/2006

    The Court of Appeal allowed the appeals because the Lands Tribunal order operated only in personam against Everwise and did not create any proprietary right in Premises B; no judgment debtor beneficially owned Premises B when the charging order was made; there was no basis to treat the BVI Intervener as identical to the Hong Kong company joined in the proceedings; consequently the charging order and subsequent orders (including the 17 August 2006 declaration and the 17 October 2006 inspection order) were wrongly made and must be set aside; additionally the judge wrongly refused leave to the I…