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They sought damages for the injuries that Mrs McCullough sustained.

On 29 June 2015, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Citic Pacific v. Secretary for Justice and rejected the narrow definition of "client" found in the leading English Court of Appeal case on legal advice privilege, Three Rivers (No.5).

In Y and Another v GI and Another [2025] HKCFI 1317, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance ("Court") allowed the defendant's application for security for costs against the plaintiffs...

In the recent case of Tam Sze Leung & Ors v. Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118, the Court of First Instance held that (1) the Commissioner of the Police acted ultra vires...

Valuable lessons can be learnt from the Hong Kong Court of First Instance's ("CFI") recent decision in Bei Ni Ltd v Cornwell (Hong Kong) Limited [2023] HKCFI 1799. The CFI was confronted with the question...

X stole the money of Y, deposited the crime proceeds into Bank A and further transferred it to other banks.

In financial proceedings on divorce, both spouses will be required to disclose their personal belongings, which may include items that they have received by way of gift...

On 30 December 2021, the Hong Kong Court of First Instance (CFI) issued its judgment in Tam Sze Leung and others v Commissioner of Police [2021] HKCFI 3118, which found the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit's (JFIU)...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal has suggested that a previous Court decision may have overstepped the mark by suggesting that an arbitration clause in a client agreement should...

The Court of Appeal recently overturned the Court of First Instance decision in Tam Sze Leung & Ors v Commissioner of Police [2023] HKCA 537 that the "letters of no consent regime (LNC Regime)...

It is an important policy of appellate jurisdictions that litigants should not be permitted to use the appeals process as an opportunity to improve upon the evidence they relied on in the court...

The successful defence of a HK$9 million Hong Kong industrial accident claim is noteworthy from a recent decision handed down by the Court of First Instance in the case of Thapa Hari Bahadur...

The Hong Kong Court in Zong and others v Zong and another[2025] HKCFI 3355 has provided important guidance on applications for interim relief under...

In P v. M [2019] HKCFI 1864; HCCT 6/2019 (24 July 2019), the Hong Kong Court of First Instance set aside parts of two arbitral awards

PTT would however be entitled to recover damages at large, based on ordinary principles and subject to proof by PTT.

In England and Wales, registration is usually evidence of legal parentage but, that is not always the end of the story. Where there is dispute between would-be parents...

Leading the way in the civil justice reforms in Hong Kong is the Construction and Arbitration List High Court with the recent implementation of a pilot scheme for voluntary mediation for cases in the Construction and Arbitration List (the scheme). The scheme is scheduled to run from 1 September 2006 until 31 August 2008. Specific details of the scheme are set out in Practice Direction 6.3 of the Construction and Arbitration List.

It is a basic and long-standing common law principle in the law of contract that a provision in a contract which is construed a penalty cannot be enforced.