15 Oct 2015
ZHANG SHOUEN AND ANOTHER v. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LTD
- Citation
- ZHANG SHOUEN AND ANOTHER v. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP682/2015
The application was dismissed because the applicants failed to establish the statutory jurisdiction for pre-action discovery: they did not particularise the intended claims or issues sufficiently, did not show how each of the 130 telephone recordings was directly relevant to issues likely to arise in the anticipated proceedings, and therefore failed the threshold under s.41 and Order 24 rule 7A; consequently the court would not exercise its discretionary power to order pre-action discovery and did not need to reach the necessity question under rule 8(2).