Read the full judgment text of HCA 008165/1996 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 22 June 1999.
2. The background leading to the conclusion of the contract is told by Mr. George Ko Tak Yin ("Mr. Ko") a director and the majority shareholder of the Plaintiff company. In the early 1970s Mr. Ko was one of the three head office executives of Hutchison International Limited ("HIL") - which was the holding company for the Hutchison Group of Companies ("the Hutchison Group") - responsible for the vetting and evaluation of acquisitions and merging proposals. During his period of office Mr. Ko vette