Read the full judgment text of HCA 000666/1986 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. In early 1985, the defendant was under contract to supply 30,000 sets humidifiers to China. The defendant had a Letter of Credit. Time expired. I need not go into any particular details. The defendant sent one Miss Tse to China for negotiation. Negotiation was not fruitful. In the course of an encounter with her Chinese counterpart, Miss Tse came to know Mr. Chiu, the middleman in the sale of 5,000 sets humidifiers to China. The seller of these 5,000 units at that particular time was supposed