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Hong Kong Case Law

Timing of discovery (pre-pleading)
  • 24 Feb 2011

    WONG HON WAI v. THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE

    Citation
    WONG HON WAI v. THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCPI664/2009

    The court dismissed the bulk of the Plaintiff's summons for specific discovery as overbroad, speculative and unnecessary at the pre-pleading stage, allowing only limited disclosure: the specific entry in the undisclosed part of section 6 of the MacGregor Report relating to the referenced 'previous item' on signage colour must be disclosed (not the entire section 6 for other pools). The remainder of the classes sought (Documents C, D, E, F and reformulated requests) were refused as irrelevant, oppressive or an impermissible fishing exercise; Document B required no order as to costs. The Plaint…