SAMANTHA JANE BRADLEY V. 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)

[2026] HKCFA 2 Court of Final Appeal 9 January 2026 • FACV3/2025 • 124 min read
100 cases cited (6 SG, 94 foreign) Cited by 1 case

Practice Areas

Basic Law Competition Ordinance High Court Ordinance Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance Rules of the High Court

Judges (5)

Bokhary Coram Chan Coram Cheung Coram Lam Coram Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury Coram

Counsel (8)

GPS Legal LLP Firm Simmons & Simmons Firm Bernard Man Counsel Amicus Curiae Jonathan Fung Counsel Amicus Curiae 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

Summary

Samantha Jane Bradley appealed against a 'Banning Order' obtained by Sir Elly Kadoorie & Sons Limited prohibiting her from issuing further proceedings without leave. The Court of Final Appeal allowed the appeal, holding that Banning Orders must be subject to stringent requirements including a finding that the litigation was totally without merit, and the courts below had not applied the correct legal principles.

Statutes Cited

Basic Law
Art 35(1)
Competition Ordinance (Cap 619)
High Court Ordinance (Cap 4)
s 21L
Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap 7)
Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap 486)
Rules of the High Court (Cap 4A)

Cases Cited (100)

SG (1)
[2013] SGCA 9
SLR (5)
[2001] 3 SLR(R) 379 [2013] 4 SLR 545 [2016] 1 SLR 1248 [2017] 1 SLR 373 [2019] 2 SLR 595
UK (49)
[1897] 2 QB 57 [1901] AC 1 [1928] 2 KB 144 [1932] AC 562 [1953] AC 180 [1968] 1 WLR 1091 [1973] 1 QB 27 [1974] AC 133 [1974] AC 436 [1976] 1 Ch 63 [1979] AC 210 [1980] 1 All ER 213 [1980] 1 WLR 1274 [1981] AC 557 [1981] AC 909 [1984] AC 262 [1992] 1 WLR 231 [1993] AC 334 [1993] QB 727 [1995] 1 WLR 1372 [1996] AC 284 [1997] AC 655 [1999] 2 AC 349 [2000] 1 WLR 1607 [2000] QB 775 [2003] 1 AC 518 [2003] 3 All ER 932 [2004] 1 WLR 1503 [2005] 2 AC 680 [2005] EWCA Civ 596 [2007] 1 AC 224 [2008] 1 AC 1 [2010] 1 WLR 1922 [2013] 1 WLR 935 [2013] 2 AC 185 [2014] EWCA Civ 1512 [2016] AC 219 [2016] EWHC 1003 [2017] EWCA Civ 1995 [2018] EWHC 241 [2021] EWHC 2542 [2022] AC 1217 [2023] AC 389 [2024] AC 211 [2024] AC 983 [2024] EWHC 2398 [2025] 1 WLR 97 [2025] 2 WLR 815 [2025] EWHC 1186
MY (2)
[2016] 4 MLJ 282 [2024] 10 MLJ 524
HK (43)
(2006) 9 HKCFAR 371 (2012) 15 HKCFAR 299 [1995] 3 HKC 313 [1998] 2 HKLRD 123 [1999] 2 HKLRD 293 [2001] 1 HKLRD 736 [2010] 3 HKLRD 371 [2012] 2 HKLRD 85 [2013] 2 HKLRD 1197 [2013] 2 HKLRD 714 [2014] 5 HKLRD 60 [2017] 4 HKLRD 1 [2018] HKCFI 70 [2018] HKDC 1613 [2018] HKDC 19 [2019] 1 HKLRD 163 [2019] 5 HKLRD 500 [2019] HKCFI 1007 [2020] 3 HKLRD 39 [2020] 5 HKLRD 638 [2020] HKCFI 1153 [2020] HKCFI 513 [2020] HKCFI 652 [2020] HKCFI 826 [2020] HKDC 66 [2021] HKCFI 3254 [2021] HKDC 1431 [2021] HKDC 158 [2022] HKDC 917 [2023] 5 HKLRD 89 [2023] HKCFI 2252 [2024] 3 HKLRD 32 [2024] 4 HKLRD 428 [2024] HKDC 1211 [2024] HKDC 2144 [2024] HKDC 422 [2024] HKDC 585 [2024] HKDC 999 [2025] HKCFA 13 [2025] HKDC 1578 [2025] HKDC 545 [2025] HKDC 94 [2025] HKFC 113

Cited By (1)

[2026] HKCFA 10
SAMANTHA JANE BRADLEY V. 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)

Judgment

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