Read the full judgment text of CACV 000283/2007 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 18 March 2008.
1. This was an appeal from a decision of HH Judge Stanley Chan given on 5 July 2007. The matter before the judge was an application under Order 12 rule 8 of the Rules of the District Court wherein the defendant sought orders first for a declaration that “in the circumstances of the case the Courts of Hong Kong have no jurisdiction over the defendant in respect of the subject matter of the claim in this action” and secondly that the action should be dismissed as the plaintiff’s claim was time-ba