Estate of Lam Chun Sing v Shui Dian Bao Air Conditioning Ltd [2024] 4 HKLRD 708

Estate of Lam Chun Sing v Shui Dian Bao Air Conditioning Ltd [2024] 4 HKLRD 708  [2024] HKDC 1510  (Deputy Judge Kenneth KY Lam) https://legalref.judiciary.hk/lrs/common/ju/ju_frame.jsp?DIS=162641&currpage=T Introduction 1. This matter came to me for trial. On 9 April 2024, supposedly the first day of trial, I heard two interlocutory applications, dismissed both, and indicated I would hand down my full reasons in writing. These are my full reasons. The New Evidence Application 2. Mr Law Ka Sing (“Mr Law”), trial counsel for the applicant, made an oral application to insert a newly disclosed bank statement (or just a single page of it) into the existing trial bundle and to adduce it as part of the evidence for the trial. 3. This oral application (“the New Evidence Application”) was opposed by Ms Valerie Tang (“Ms Tang”), trial counsel for the 1st and 2nd respondents, on the ground that Mr Law’s move was plainly “an ambush”. Ms Tang submitted to me that the document was o...