24 Jul 2024
Extension refused because applicant delayed 13 days, provided an implausible explanation given prior appellate experience, and failed to show any arguable error or real prospect on appeal; costs awarded to respondent assessed at HK$5,000.
18 Jul 2013
Leave to amend was granted in part because the Striking Out Orders were interlocutory and based on pleading/particulars/non-compliance rather than merits, and the proposed amendments were necessary to present positive defences to newly pleaded Quistclose trust claims; however amendments that would resurrect the exact matters struck out (material reliant on instructions from D1 and pleaded beneficial share ownership previously struck out) were barred and refused; leave to file a limited supplemental witness statement of the firm partner (IDW) was granted as relevant, while witness statements f…