The following cases were recently reported by the Hon Mr Justice Bokhary. See below for His Lordship’s remarks and observations by way of Editor’s Notes.

HKSAR v Tsui Lok Hin (徐洛軒) [2023] 5 HKLRD 45

 “This case illustrates the importance of reading a summing-up as a whole.”

Re Suen Kin Wing (Committal for Contempt) [2023] 5 HKLRD 98 

“(i) at paras.118-119, the learned Judge made directions relating to the sentencing stage of these contempt proceedings; (ii) see also Yu Quan Li v Suen Kin Wing [2019] 5 HKLRD 316, where the defendant sought unsuccessfully to stay the plaintiffs' action until the conclusion of related criminal proceedings against him.”

HKSAR v Yu Jie (俞潔) [2023] 5 HKLRD 261 

“Both in regard to conviction and in regard to sentence, this case presented the Court of Appeal with an opportunity, of which they have made use, to deal with the relevant principles, apply the same and explain such application.”

Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Ltd v Bradley (No 2) [2023] 5 HKLRD 240 

“The most important part of this judgment is as set out in the catchwords to the report of the case.”

VDR v TOY [2023] 5 HKLRD 449 

“The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction signed at The Hague on 25 October 1980 is given effect in Hong Kong by the Child Abduction and Custody Ordinance (Cap.512).”

Re Lam Kwok Hung Guy, ex p Tor Asia Credit Master Fund LP (No 2) (林國雄) [2023] 5 HKLRD 463 

“What the Court of Appeal decided and why are sufficiently indicated by the foregoing holdings, but the whole of what G Lam JA said repays, and should receive, attention.”

Chan Siu Lung v Yip Kam Shui (t/a Ying Tung Engineering Co) [2023] 5 HKLRD 710 

“Importantly, this judgment brings out the law's recognition of the need for a plaintiff to overcome, with the aid of therapy, a psychiatric and/or psychological fear of heights caused by a fall from a height, before that plaintiff could resume work which involved working at a height.”

Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation v Wing Fung Hong [2023] 5 HKLRD 723

“This judgment refers to the relevant considerations and illustrates how they operated in the present situation in which the Covid-19 pandemic was or might have been a factor.”