Read the full judgment text of CACV 000221/1998 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 3 February 1999.
1. This is an appeal from an order of Nguyen, J. made on 24 April 1998. The parties to the proceedings before the judge were one Cheung Yuet Kiu, the plaintiff, New Fund Development Limited, the defendant (which I shall call "the purchaser") and Chung Tim Fat, the third party (whom I shall call "the vendor"). The vendor was the vendor under a contract for sale and purchase made on 26 November 1996; the purchaser was the purchaser under the contract. The plaintiff, with whom we are not presently