25 Jan 2016
GLOBAL BRIDGE ASSETS LTD AND ANOTHER v. SUN HUNG KAI FINANCIAL LTD
- Citation
- GLOBAL BRIDGE ASSETS LTD AND ANOTHER v. SUN HUNG KAI FINANCIAL LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1701/2014
The application for leave to appeal was dismissed because the plaintiffs failed to show a reasonable prospect that the court had gone clearly wrong or erred in principle: the present action concerns substantially similar underlying events so the court properly exercised its discretion to order a trial of preliminary issues under established strike out and case management principles; the defendant had no duty to commence separate proceedings to impugn documents and the court properly ordered simultaneous exchange of witness statements; limitation issues potentially affect the second plaintiff'…