1 Mar 2017
WONG CHEUNG TAI v. 房麗芬
- Citation
- WONG CHEUNG TAI v. 房麗芬
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ3535/2014
The court has inherent/general jurisdiction to strike out irrelevant or scandalous parts of witness statements; background evidence about TP tenancies that is directly tied to the defendants (the husband, Mdm Fong and Mr Fong) is potentially relevant and should be left for the trial judge, but detailed negotiation results and documents relating to other third‑party tenancies are plainly irrelevant and scandalous for these actions and, in the interests of active case management, fairness and expedition, those parts must be struck out. The court therefore granted the summonses in part, ordered…