Read the full judgment text of CACV 000126/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 September 1990.
1. The Plaintiff, Carrian Investments Limited ("CIL"), was a public listed company fashionable on the stock markets of Hong Kong until the collapse of the entire Carrian Group. It was put into compulsory liquidation on the 9th November 1983. In September 1986, through its liquidation, it issued a writ, followed a year later by a Statement of Claim, alleging negligence against Deacons, the firm of solicitors who had advised and acted for it, inter alia, in connection with the sale of what at the