18 Sept 2008
INTELLIGENT HOUSE LTD v. CHAN TUNG SHING AND OTHERS
- Citation
- INTELLIGENT HOUSE LTD v. CHAN TUNG SHING AND OTHERS
- Court
- Lands Tribunal
- Case number
- LDCS11000/2006
The Tribunal held costs should, as a matter of principle, follow the event; China Superior must pay Intelligent House's costs confined to the legal contentions and rebuttal expert evidence it raised (to be taxed at High Court Scale with certificate for two counsel); the Tribunal has jurisdiction under O 62 r 9A to order an interim payment at the conclusion of proceedings where it is just to do so and there is a genuine risk of dissipation, and on the facts an interim payment of HK$1,983,418 was ordered; the Tribunal does not have power under s 4(6)(a)(iii) to direct trustees to pay proceeds t…