Read the full judgment text of HCA 004757/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 March 2000.
1. This is a case involving the conveyance of some real property in the New Territories. The plaintiff's case was basically that its director, Fung Ting, had intended to use the plaintiff to purchase the property called Tim Yuen Villa ("Tim Yuen"). However, due to the negligence of its solicitors, the defendant, it had only purchased two lots of land within the boundary of Tim Yuen and not the whole of Tim Yuen. The plaintiff therefore claimed damages against the defendant for having failed to d