25 May 2012
BIG ISLAND CONSTRUCTION (HK) LTD v. WU YI ENTERPRISES CO LTD
- Citation
- BIG ISLAND CONSTRUCTION (HK) LTD v. WU YI ENTERPRISES CO LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA886/2007
Because both sides engaged in serious misconduct and fabrication in HCA1957/2005 the court varied the costs order nisi to make no order as to costs between the parties; indemnity costs were awarded against BIC in HCA714/2007 because BIC invented an untenable defence amounting to an affront to the court; indemnity costs were refused in HCA886/2007 as no exceptional features justified them; the application to make Mr Lee personally liable failed for procedural (failure to join and hear him) and substantive reasons (lack of investigation into control/funding); set off against FBC's costs was ref…