Read the full judgment text of HCA 013096/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 August 1999.
1. The Master in the court below on 7th May 1999 gave unconditional leave to the Defendant to defend the sum of HK$24,088.00, but ordered that conditional leave to defend be given to the Defendant upon payment in of the sum of HK$647,027.88. This is an appeal by the Defendant from that conditional leave to defend given by the Master. The Plaintiff, at the hearing of this appeal, seeks a summary judgment of that sum of HK$647,027.88. Much of the ground that had been advanced in the skeleton argum