Read the full judgment text of HCA 015803/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 21 November 2000.
1. The defendant is a firm of solicitors instructed by the plaintiff to act for it in the purchase of a ground floor shop in Tsuen Wan and in a subsequent sale of it. The purchase proceeded to completion uneventfully. It is the plaintiff's case that since then it has tried twice to sell it without success. On each occasion agreements were entered into but the purchasers discovered a defect in the title document and requisitioned for rectification. The plaintiff was unable to rectify resulting in