Read the full judgment text of CACC 000261/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 July 2000.
1. Concrete piles form the foundations of buildings. When shafts for the piles are excavated by boring, the piles are known as bored piles. Short-piling is the name given to the practice of excavating shafts for bored piles to a depth less than the specifications require. That is concealed from the developers and the main contractors, who then pay for work which has not been properly done. This case concerns a short-piling fraud at the site of the new Hong Kong Central Station on reclaimed land
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