Read the full judgment text of HCMP 184/2018 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 March 2018.
1. In proceedings HCA 2014/2017, the applicant, a company incorporated in Japan, claims that a Japanese businessman fraudulently misrepresented to it that an order had been placed for the purchase of equipment, when in truth no such order had been placed. That had induced the applicant to pay sums in excess of 400 million Japanese yen, which is about HK$28 million, to another company in Japan, and those sums were eventually paid into the bank accounts in Hong Kong of two companies incorporated i