Read the full judgment text of CACV 000008/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 9 February 2010.
1. By a contract dated 23 February 2004 the 1 st defendant was employed by the plaintiff to do certain electrical works at the University of Hong Kong. The contract sum for the works was HK$3,000,000. The 1 st defendant in turn sub-contracted the whole of the works to Lau Kam Ming (“Mr Lau”) for HK$2,100,000. It was the plaintiff’s case that the 1 st defendant repudiated the contract when the workers who were involved with the contract works went on strike on 15 March 2005 and the 1 st defend