Read the full judgment text of HCA 699/1992 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 13 January 2000.
2. As Mr. Thomson for Dr Ip the Defendant quite rightly pointed out, the leading authority on measure of damages for deceit is now Smith New Court Securities Ltd v. Citibank N A [1997] AC 254. The facts of that case are of no reference value herein. It is from the approach adopted by their lordships that I should find guidance. In particular, Lord Brown-Wilkinson said that in considering damages in tort, the starting point must be the well known statement of Lord Blackburn in Livingstone v. Rawy
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