Read the full judgment text of HCA 001475/1972 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 January 1973.
1. In this case the plaintiff claims $20,000 for assault. Her claim, she alleges in her Reply, would have been greatly in excess of this were it not for her innate modesty. The assault which forms the basis of this claim was also the subject matter of a private summons heard in the Magistrate's Court, Causeway Bay on the 26th day of November, 1971. In his judgment in that case the learned Magistrate said: