16 Dec 2024
香港平民屋宇有限公司 對 黃詠珊
- Citation
- [2024] HKDC 2110
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ5545/2023
The court refused the case-management stay and declined expedited-trial directions because the balance of convenience, fairness between parties and efficient use of court resources favoured continuation of standard case management: the pending High Court judicial review was not shown to be necessarily decisive for all defendants, many defendants have private-law defences that must be pleaded now under res judicata principles, and the risk of prejudice from expedited directions outweighed the plaintiff's compressed timetable argument given the scheduled JR hearing date and ongoing procedural u…