Potential liability for contempt of court of signers of inaccurate statements of truth | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: We all have had to arrange clients to sign the required “statement of truth” concerning the contents of pleadings in court proceedings. Some arbitrators are directing similar signed statements on statements of case and memoranda in arbitrations. But, what are the consequences (if any) – for the person who signed the statement of truth - where something in the pleadings turns out to be inaccurate? In Mathnasium Center Licensing, LLC v Chang Chi Hung (aka Alex Chang) [2020] HKCA 1016, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal (the “ Cour...
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