Read the full judgment text of HCA 014441/1999 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 7 July 2006.
1. In this case, the Plaintiff is seeking to recover from the Defendant, Mr Wong Yu Choi, the sum of $1.2 million paid to him in August 1997 as a commission for which he would facilitate the sale to it of a piece of land at Tai Po with vacant possession, the vendor being a company called Goodwill Gate Limited (“Goodwill”) of which he was a shareholder and one of four directors. In the event, Goodwill was not able to complete the sale with the result that the Plaintiff seeks repayment of that co