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  • 29 Feb 2024

    KEIRON PETER ARCH ROCHESTER v. GLORY SKY PRECIOUS METALS LTD

    Citation
    [2024] HKCFI 551
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA395/2019

    The court upheld the original costs order nisi and dismissed the plaintiff's application to vary it because the defendant was largely successful on the Witness Statement Summons, the plaintiff prevailed on a narrow Discovery issue (warranting lesser costs than the Master assessed for both summonses), and the Time Summons caused no prejudice and the defendant accepted responsibility for the application cost; overall the court exercised its discretion to avoid disproportionate taxation and ordered each party to bear their own costs of the appeal and the three summonses, with costs of the presen…

  • 7 Mar 2023

    RE CHU YING KIN

    Citation
    [2023] HKCFI 680
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCB4013/2017

    The court found on balance that the bankrupt wilfully failed to disclose multiple assets/claims (registered trademarks, a substantial ongoing PRC property claim, shareholdings) and was evasive with the Official Receiver, thereby establishing grounds (c) (failure to co-operate) and (d) (unsatisfactory conduct) under s30A(4). Given the duty to disclose, the OR's need to investigate and the aims of rehabilitation balanced against commercial morality, the court exercised its discretion to suspend the Relevant Period. The Time Summons was retrospectively granted. The suspension was set at one year…