Read the full judgment text of HCA 1221/2006 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 27 March 2009.
1. This is an application by the 2 nd Third Party (“Mr Law”) against the then solicitors acting for the Defendants in High Court Action No 1221 of 2006 (“HCA 1221/2006”), Messrs Tang, Wong & Cheung (“TWC”), for an order that his costs in the third party proceedings be paid by TWC on an indemnity basis. The jurisdiction to make such orders against solicitors personally is commonly referred to as the wasted costs jurisdiction: see Myers v Elman [1940] AC 282 and Ridehalgh v Horsefield [1994] Ch 2
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