30 Jan 2019
TSOI CHIK SANG LAWRENCE v. TASTY CATERING GROUP LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 645
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP823/2018
The application to intervene was dismissed because (1) the signed consent summons, if approved, would remove any live issues for determination; (2) the intervener's claims materially exceeded the scope of the originating summons and raised disputed questions of fact and alleged fraud that require trial proceedings, not resolution by originating summons; (3) the intervener's claims overlapped with ongoing consolidated proceedings and permitting intervention would multiply proceedings rather than prevent them; and (4) the intervener lacked immediate shareholder standing to exercise the claimed…