Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000011/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 March 1997.
1. Lan Min Hung had a current account with the Standard Chartered Bank. He was issued with a cheque book. In due course, two blank cheques were stolen from that book. They were stolen by the 2nd Respondent, Kong Kiu Kei ("R2"). He filled in those cheques himself. One cheque was for $92,700.00, and the other was for $397,300.00. He forged Mr. Lan's signature on them, and in August and September 1995 he paid them into an account with the Hong Kong Bank in the name of the company of which he was th