Read the full judgment text of CACV 000124/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment.
1. This is an appeal from a judgment of Mayo J given on 3rd July 1990 whereby he found and declared that certain sums specified in the appendix to the conditions of tender incorporated in an agreement in writing between Philips Hong Kong Ltd ("the contractors") and the Hong Kong Government and expressed as liquidated damages for delay "were capable of amounting to a penalty", that clause 29 of the conditions of the agreement was void for uncertainty and, in consequence, that the Hong Kong Govern