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SCMP Reporter

Two handwriting experts have concluded that the signature on Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's  second will is  a forgery, the Court of First Instance was told yesterday. 
Chinachem Charitable Foundation  said  its  expert and another for rival Tony Chan Chun-chuen  both agreed that Wang had not signed a 2006 will that left her estimated HK$100 billion fortune to Mr Chan. 'A very important development has taken place,' Denis Chang SC,  the charity's barrister, told Mr Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon.  'There is strong positive evidence that the will is not genuine. It's a forgery.'
Chinachem had previously made the forgery allegations, but yesterday was the first time it had said that Mr Chan's expert agreed that Wang's signature was faked. Mr Chan's legal team had opted to not use the expert's report at trial next month because it gave an 'unfavourable opinion', Mr Chang told the hearing. 
Jonathan Midgley,  Mr Chan's  lawyer, dismissed the comments from Chinachem's barrister. 
'That was his opinion about the conclusions in the report,' Mr Midgley told reporters outside court. 
Another hearing later this week would clarify the issue, he added.
The hearing yesterday was called as Mr Chan's legal team pushed to have a second handwriting expert prepare a report for trial.
Chinachem had described the move as 'expert shopping'.
Mr Justice Lam said he would rule on whether to let the expert give evidence after both sides presented arguments this week. 
A  lawyer for Chinachem had flown to London to pick up Wang's handwriting samples. Those samples would be sent to Mr Chan's newest handwriting analyst, who lived in Australia, the court heard. 
A civil trial will start next month to decide if Mr Chan or Chinachem should inherit Wang's estate.
Wang, who ran her late husband Teddy Wang Teh-huei's  Chinachem property empire before her death two years ago, was once Asia's richest woman.



Handwriting experts say signature on second will is a forgery