2 Dec 2013
DARBY INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LTD v. RONG TAI INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING LTD
- Citation
- DARBY INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LTD v. RONG TAI INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1438/2013
On the face of the certified documents produced by the Marine Department and in the absence of any evidence from the defendant or its director challenging those documents, the court was satisfied that the Hong Kong ship registration and the Hong Kong ship mortgage were valid, subsisting and enforceable under the Merchant Shipping (Registration) Ordinance Cap 415 as at 17 February 2012; the declarations sought were narrow, would serve a useful purpose for the PRC proceedings and would not determine ownership or mortgage priority, so exercise of discretion to grant declaratory relief was approp…