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The District Court refused leave to appeal, holding the proposed appeal had no reasonable prospect of success and no basis for a stay of execution.
Ancillary relief trial on asset division, add-backs and child maintenance. The court ordered sale of the main home, equal division, and HK$25,000 monthly child maintenance.
The Court of First Instance dismissed a defendant’s appeal against refusal of expert evidence on share valuation, holding the proposed valuation was unnecessary and irrelevant.
The Court of First Instance granted leave for expert evidence on FISH, SPR and valuation, but adjourned consequential directions and dismissed an application to bar further interlocutory motions.
Ancillary relief judgment in a Hong Kong divorce: the court ordered sale of two properties, applied the sharing principle, and set child maintenance at HK$50,550 per month.
The court decided a matrimonial discovery dispute, allowing only limited disclosure on live issues and rejecting most requests, including bank-record requests without special cause.
Bankruptcy petition granted against Margaret Chiu. The court found she could not show an ability or reasonable prospect of paying the debt, and rejected her late evidence and settlement offers.
The court appointed new single joint experts for property and company valuations in matrimonial proceedings, fixed filing deadlines, and ordered costs nisi against the petitioner.
Applying the LKW five‑step framework the court identified family assets totalling HKD3,618,614.81, assessed both parties had working capacity and similar contributions over a 31‑year marriage, started from equal sharing but departed to a 60:40 split in favour of the wife because of the husband's adultery, abandonment and partial nondisclosure of post‑sale proceeds; offsetting the wife's existing asset position produced a net lump sum payment by the husband of HKD100,204.88 to achieve the 60:40 allocation and to finalise ancillary relief, with each party to bear their own costs given responden…
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The court found a binding oral family agreement to split two companies, granted specific performance, and dismissed the inter-company debt claim.
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