11 Jun 2020
CHAN MAN SHUN v. SZE CHING LOK
- Citation
- [2020] HKCA 458
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV47/2019
The appellant was shown to be impecunious and/or likely to cause difficulty or delay in recovery of costs; the appeal did not demonstrate a high chance of success to outweigh that fact; accordingly it was just to order security for costs and the appropriate quantum, considering the skeleton bill and lack of complexity, was HK$150,000; failure to provide security results in stay of proceedings and dismissal on certification of default; no order as to costs of the security application due to plaintiff's failure to supply an itemised estimate initially.