Read the full judgment text of HCA 009218/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 2 September 1999.
2. There is an unusual feature in this matter in that the First Defendant is a practising solicitor in Hong Kong. He was represented by a firm of solicitors and counsel. However, those solicitors came off the record and his counsel had to withdraw at the last minute. Despite conventional wisdom, the First Defendant chose to represent himself at the hearing before me. This created a number of problems including inconvenience to his opponent. And, I regret to say, I had considerable difficulties i