Read the full judgment text of HCA 002223/2003 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 3 April 2009.
1. This matter came on for trial on 1 April 2009, but the defendant failed to appear at 10 o’clock that morning, the time fixed for the commencement of this trial. I stood the case down for half an hour to give him an opportunity to turn up, but he was still not here at 10.30 a.m. Having made enquiries with my clerk, as well as having heard from the plaintiff’s counsel, Mr Kenneth Wong, about the efforts made to contact the defendant by telephone regarding the hearing of this case, I was satis