Haldanes Solicitors Used Wrong Procedure To Add a Defamation Counterclaim to a Defence, And Should Pay Indemnity Costs to Its Opponent, Says Judge Queeny Au-Yeung in HCA 492/2020 [2021] HKCFI 1040

Haldanes Solicitors Used Wrong Procedure To Add a Defamation Counterclaim to a Defence, And Should Pay Indemnity Costs to Its Opponent, Says Judge Queeny Au-Yeung in HCA 492/2020 [2021] HKCFI 1040 - DEEPAK PAGARANI AND HIRO BHARWANI v. HALDANES SOLICITORS & NOTARIES (A FIRM) 

Ms Jezamine Fewins, of Stephenson Harwood, for the plaintiffs

Mr Barry Barlow, SC, instructed by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, for the defendant 

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