Read the full judgment text of HCA 008437/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. The dispute which I am asked to adjudicate embraces issues of some legal and factual complexity, the genesis of which can traced to a simple complaint of oversight by professional auditors in failing to detect an allegedly inflated statement of profits in the audited accounts of a certain company which led, according to the complainants, to an overpayment of profits tax by the company concerned and the declaration and payment of a dividend for which they now seek to hold the auditors liable.