Yerrid Law Firm – the impact of illegality on restitutionary defences

Ernest Ng and Nicole Chui, instructed by Tanner De Witt, represented The Yerrid Law Firm (“P”) before the Court of Appeal (“CA”) which ordered that the default judgment and garnishee order obtained by P be set aside upon the 2^nd defendant’s (“D2”) payment into court. The question before the CA was whether illegality bars the restitutionary defences relied on by D2.