Read the full judgment text of CACV 000038/1995 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 21 September 1995.
1. This is an O. 14 appeal. The defendant is a practising barrister. In 1990, approximately US$500,000 in Australian currency was remitted to a trust company in the United Kingdom called P.F.L. (Holdings) Limited. The remittance was pre-arranged by one Mrs Barbara Harris, an alias of the plaintiff, for investment on behalf of a blind trust known as the "Snow Trust" by P.F.L.'s controlling French company called Union Fidelite Corporation S.A. The United Kingdom trust company which was controlled