Ex-wife in fresh bid to make former husband pay HK$6m child support
Woman has fought legal battles in Canada, US and Hong Kong over 14 years to make pilot pay
The ex-wife of a Cathay Pacific pilot has launched a new round of legal attempts to get more than HK$6 million in maintenance payments that she claims her former husband has been evading for more than 14 years.
Suzanne Ruth Henderson has sought a judicial review over two District Court registrars' decisions refusing to register her Canadian divorce order in 2009 and 2014.
Both registrars cancelled her application as they ruled Scott Henderson, her former husband, was not a Hong Kong resident.
"The District Court registrars have taken into [account] the irrelevant consideration that the [husband] also has residency in the US," the writ says.
When she applied for a worldwide injunction to freeze the husband's assets in the High Court last year, Deputy Judge Arjan Sakhrani ruled there was "a good arguable case" that Mr Henderson was residing in Hong Kong. He allowed the injunction order to continue.
In her new lawsuit, the former wife urges the High Court to review the registrars' decisions, based on the deputy judge's earlier findings.