Read the full judgment text of HCA 013900/1983 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 March 1984.
1. On the 16th January 1984 I dismissed the appeal of the Defendant against the order of Master Betts on the 19th December 1983 giving summary judgment under O.14 to the Plaintiff for the sum of US$1,839,420 or the Hong Kong dollar equivalent together with interest claimed by the Plaintiff in respect of a dishonoured bill of exchange. Shortly after dismissing the appeal my attention was drawn to a number of South African cases cited in Cowen on the Law of Negotiable Instruments in South Africa (