Read the full judgment text of HCA 2721/2016 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 May 2017.
1. This is an application by the defendant (“Mr Hess”) by summons dated 5 December 2016 to stay an action, namely, HCA 2721/2016, (“the Hong Kong action”) commenced by the plaintiff Werner Bossard (“Mr Bossard”) in Hong Kong against him on 19 October 2016 in favour of pre-existing Swiss proceedings (“the Swiss action”) on the grounds set out in Order 12, rule 8(2A)(c) (“the parallel proceedings ground”) and/or rule 8(2A)(a) (“the forum non conveniens ground”) of the Rules of the High Court.