Read the full judgment text of HCA 11077/1994 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 July 2005.
1. This exceptionally difficult Action is concerned with whether the sale, against the wishes of the Plaintiff, Esquire (Electronics) Ltd. (“Esquire”) of its crown jewel of a building in May 1987 at the insistence of the Defendant, its banker, The Hong Kong And Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (“the Bank”) to a close associate of the Bank, was such as amount to sufficient improper crossing of line in the behaviour of a bank so as to impose a liability on the bank to its former customer, Esqu
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