The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed an application by the ex-wife of a tycoon to make public a judgment in which she got HK$1.2 billion in a divorce settlement.
The judgment was given last December in the legal battle between solicitor Florence Tsang Chiu-wing and her ex-husband, Samathur Li Kin-kan, son of property tycoon Samuel Lee Tak-yee. The father and son have appealed. The amount was later raised to HK$1.4 billion, according to their appeal application documents.
Tsang had claimed HK$5.5 billion in the lawsuit seeking ancillary relief following her divorce from Li in 2008.
The judge had ruled that Tsang was entitled to maintain a lifestyle that she had become accustomed to, and found that the men had forged a loan agreement that transferred virtually all of the husband's assets to his father. He also referred the case to the Director of Public Prosecution for criminal investigation.
The judgment had been withheld from the public domain although some details were made available.
Yesterday, Tsang asked the court to make the written judgment and other documents public so she could use them to seek assets she was awarded in foreign courts.