Read the full judgment text of CACV 000070/1991 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. The real question at issue in these three appeals is whether on 14 July 1987 a firm of solicitors, Messrs Deacons, had, or are now deemed to have had, authority to issue a writ in the name of the Ka wah Bank Limited ("the Bank") claiming from 19 defendants damages for conspiracy, fraud, breach of trust and negligence. Four of those defendants, Low Chun Song, Low Chun Seng, C.S. Low Investment Ltd and Ratonite Inc., claim that the solicitors had no such authority because their principal, media