22 Mar 2019
SERIDOM SERVICIOS INTEGRADOS IDOM S.A.U. v. HENG WEN TRADE CO., LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFI 761
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1631/2017
The court varied the Costs Order Nisi and ordered D8 and D10 to forthwith pay P's costs of and occasioned by the Summons (and the Costs Summons) to be summarily assessed because (1) the incidence of costs in P's favour had already been determined by the Costs Order Nisi, (2) summary assessment was appropriate as D8 and D10 did not identify substantial grounds of dispute that could not be dealt with summarily, (3) the Summons was severable and self-contained and the quantum justified separate assessment, and (4) the objectives of the Civil Justice Reform and Practice Direction 14.3 militated i…