Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 26 April 2007.
1. As Yip Lai-fong v Sin Tung Hing & Others [2004] 3 HKLR 230 has demonstrated there is no right order. What the court has to do in circumstances such as this is to come to what we consider is a fair order. There are many ways of looking at it but it seems to us that, having heard the arguments this morning, the best thing is to leave the order as we left it. It means that the Plaintiff is deprived of his costs below. One way of looking at it is that the Plaintiff only gets one set of costs,