SIR ELLY KADOORIE & SONS LTD (FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, ITS CURRENT AND FORMER OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS, INCLUDING ITS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, MESSRS SIMMONS & SIMMONS) V. SAMANTHA JANE BRADLEY

[2024] HKCA 747 Court of Appeal 26 August 2024 • CACV194/2023 • 59 min read

34 cases cited (3 HK, 31 foreign) Cited by 3 cases

Judges (3)

Counsel (6)

GPS Legal LLP Firm Simmons & Simmons Firm Keith Chan Counsel Plaintiff Lavesh Kirpalani Counsel Defendant Queenie Lau Counsel Plaintiff Sonny Payne Counsel Defendant

Parties (2)

Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Limited (For and on Behalf of Itself, Its Current and Former Officers, Employees and Agents, Including Its Legal Representatives, Messrs Simmons & Simmons) Plaintiff Samantha Jane Bradley Defendant

Case Significance

Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Ltd (for and on behalf of itself, its current and former officers, employees and agents, including its legal representatives, Messrs Simmons & Simmons) v Samantha Jane Bradley [2024] HKCA 747 is a Court of Appeal judgment dated 26 August 2024. Its reasoning engaged Secretary for Justice v Persons Conducting Themselves in Any of the Acts Prohibited under Paragraph 1(a), (b), (c) or (d) of the Indorsement of Claim (and 1 other) [2024] HKCA 442 among the authorities considered. The dispute continued in later Court of First Instance proceedings under the same case name, reported at [2025] HKCFI 1812 and [2025] HKCFI 4041, and was also referenced in Success Lane Development Ltd v IFC Development (Suite) Ltd as Agent for IFC Development Ltd [2024] HKDC 2184.

Which authority did the Court of Appeal engage with in Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Ltd v Samantha Jane Bradley [2024] HKCA 747?

The Court of Appeal's reasoning in this 26 August 2024 judgment engaged Secretary for Justice v Persons Conducting Themselves in Any of the Acts Prohibited under Paragraph 1(a), (b), (c) or (d) of the Indorsement of Claim (and 1 other) [2024] HKCA 442 among the authorities it considered.

Did the Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Ltd v Samantha Jane Bradley dispute continue after the 2024 Court of Appeal ruling ([2024] HKCA 747)?

Yes. The same dispute continued in Court of First Instance proceedings reported at [2025] HKCFI 1812 and [2025] HKCFI 4041, and the 2024 Court of Appeal judgment was also referenced in Success Lane Development Ltd v IFC Development (Suite) Ltd [2024] HKDC 2184.

Statutes Cited

Rules of the High Court (Cap 4A)

Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap 571)

s 213(2)(c)

Cases Cited (34)

SLR (3)

[2001] 4 SLR 454 [2016] 1 SLR 1248 [2017] 1 SLR 373

UK (21)

[1979] AC 210 [1996] AC 284 [1997] AC 655 [2001] EWCA Civ 1721 [2002] EWHC 1380 [2004] 1 WLR 1503 [2004] EWHC 194 [2005] QB 848 [2007] 1 AC 224 [2010] EWHC 2612 [2013] 1 WLR 935 [2015] EWHC 2141 [2017] EWHC 1205 [2018] EWHC 241 [2020] 1 WLR 417 [2020] EWHC 163 [2021] EWHC 2542 [2021] EWHC 2996 [2023] 2 WLR 699 [2023] AC 389 [2024] 2 WLR 45

HK (10)

[2001] 1 HKLRD 736 [2006] 4 HKC 572 [2009] 4 HKLRD 315 [2013] 2 HKLRD 1197 [2014] 5 HKLRD 60 [2019] 5 HKLRD 500 [2020] HKCFI 826 [2023] 5 HKLRD 240 [2023] HKCFI 1478 [2024] HKCA 442

Cited By (3)

[2025] HKCFI 4041

SIR ELLY KADOORIE & SONS LTD (FOR AND ON BEHALF OF ITSELF, ITS CURRENT AND FORMER OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS, INCLUDING ITS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, MESSRS SIMMONS & SIMMONS) V. SAMANTHA JANE BRADLEY

[2025] HKCFI 1812

[2024] HKDC 2184

SUCCESS LANE DEVELOPMENT LTD V. IFC DEVELOPMENT (SUITE) LTD AS AGENT FOR IFC DEVELOPMENT LTD

Citation influence

HKLII records this judgment as cited by 9 later judgments. This counts every later Hong Kong judgment that references this case, which is broader than the resolved citations listed above.

[2026] HKCFA 2 Court of Final Appeal

9 January 2026

[2025] HKCFI 1812 Court of First Instance

2 May 2025

[2025] HKDC 94 District Court

14 January 2025

[2025] HKCFI 4041 Court of First Instance

5 September 2025

[2025] HKCFI 3207 Court of First Instance

1 August 2025

[2024] HKDC 2144 District Court

30 December 2024