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Wasted Costs Order Against ​Irresponsible  KB Chau ​& Co Solicitors ​Personally  [1995] 2 HKLR 567 - Litton ​ ​ V-P, Bokhary and Godfrey ​ ​ JJA ​ of the ​ Hong Kong Court of Appeal ​ - 不負責任嘅周啟邦律師事務所俾香港法庭罰訟費 https://www.hklii.org/eng/hk/cases/hkca/1995/501.html ​... ​ The appellants were solicitors on the record in High Court Action No. A994 of 1995 acting for a company registered in the British Virgin Islands called Shanghai International Capital Ltd (the plaintiff). It was, as the judge described it, a $50 company, with virtually no assets. Mr. Joseph Keung Shu-Hoi, a partner in the appellant firm, was in charge of that piece of litigation. It was his conduct of the matter on behalf of the plaintiff particularly in relation to a Mareva injunction application which led to the order now under appeal. ​ ​... In our view, the judge was plainly right to conclude that the wasted costs arose through the solicitor's misconduct and default. Personal liability for t...

http://gettingjusticeinhongkong.blogspot.com/2019/05/k-b-chau-co-solicitors-criticized-by-the-hong-kong-court-of-appeal.html 周啟邦律師事務所俾香港高等法院上訴庭鬧!  K B Chau & Co Solicitors Criticized by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal in [2018] HKCA 210 [2018] 2 HKLRD 864!  http://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=114747&currpage=T 62.  After the conclusion of the hearing, and without seeking leave of the court or the consent of the plaintiffs, William’s solicitors made further submissions by letter with proposals of directions from this court to the judge.   This is highly unsatisfactory and such practice has been rightly deprecated in a number of decisions , including To Pui Kui v Ng Kwok Piu & Ors, CACV 281/2012, 21 August 2014, at §§55 to 61.  Mr Chua did not seek an adjournment of the hearing to deal with any further point he might wish to address, nor did he give any indication at the hearing he needed to do further research to supplement ...