24 Apr 2008
MAZE ALUMINIUM ENGINEERING CO LTD v. CHINA STATE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- MAZE ALUMINIUM ENGINEERING CO LTD v. CHINA STATE CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CORPORATION AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCCT38/2006
The judge exercised discretion to grant security for costs in part because the defendants established a combination of factors—plaintiff's materially reduced business activities and turnover, sale of real property assets, and absence of a major shareholder—creating a real risk the plaintiff would be unable to pay costs; quantum was reduced from the claimed $2.7 million to $1.5 million as appropriate at this interlocutory stage. Specific discovery was refused because the requested documents were not sufficiently relevant to the pleaded issues and the requests were overbroad and constituted a f…