30 Jan 2024
ASIAM HOLDINGS LTD v. SHIN KAI LOK AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- [2024] HKCFI 375
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA771/2020
The court may exercise its case management powers at a pre-trial review to require defendants to confirm attendance at trial within a reasonable period and may prescribe consequences for failure to do so; given the defendants' repeated non-attendance, failure to file witness statements and inability to adduce oral evidence, it was just to require written confirmation by 30 April 2024 that they will attend the trial and to strike out the Amended Defence (filed 12 Jan 2021) and permit the plaintiff to enter judgment against the 1st defendant if they fail to comply, with specified consequential…