Read the full judgment text of CACV 000077/1987 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 14th December 1982 a businessman, Mr. Kwong Kwok Kin, the Defendant in the action below, lent his private motor car to a friend whom he knew only as "Peter Chai", that is to say "Little Peter". Little Peter's own car was out of order. Mr. Kwong had no knowledge of what Little Peter intended to do that afternoon or evening with the car. He merely let him have it. Little Peter returned the car the next day at about one o'clock as he had promised, but w