26 Jul 2019
CHOI LISA MEI YIN v. YAU PAK KIN
- Citation
- [2019] HKCA 812
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV423/2018
The appeal was dismissed because the Court of Appeal upheld the trial judge's finding on the balance of probabilities that the promissory note was forged, based on persuasive handwriting expert evidence corroborated by documentary inconsistencies and implausible explanations by the plaintiff; alternatively, even if genuine, the underlying debts were discharged by bankruptcy and the interest term rendered the instrument invalid as not a sum certain, and evidence indicated overpayment by the defendant.