Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000523/1975 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 9 March 1978.
1. The plaintiff is a company which holds and develops real estate. In 1969 it completed the erection in Shaukiwan of a 29-storey complex which is now known as the Tai On Building. It should have 104 shops on the ground floor, with non-domestic and domestic units above. Most, if not all, of the individual units were sold by the plaintiff during the course of construction, in the sense that the purchaser entered into an agreement for sale with the plaintiff whereby the purchase price would be pai