Read the full judgment text of CACV 000243/2009 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 29 July 2010.
1. The plaintiff’s case is that it made a loan of HK$5,000,000 to Abba Entertainment Group Ltd (“Abba”). The defendant was a shareholder and director of Abba. The defendant provided a cheque in a sum of HK$5,000,000 as security for the Abba loan (“the cheque”). According to the plaintiff, the cheque so provided bore the defendant’s signature with the amount of HK$5,000,000 filled in in figures and words but with the name of the payee and the date left blank. According to the defendant, the c