Read the full judgment text of HCA 000548/1986 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. This is a curious and very confused case. The parties were both contractors working on a site at Ma On Shan in Shatin. I do not know how many sub-contractors there were, but I am assuming that the plaintiff is the number one sub-contractor and the defendant, the number two sub-contractor. The defendant's work was apparently part of the construction of caissons. The parties fell out over money. Part of the defendant's work force seems to have gone on strike by reason of non-payment of its wage