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Hong Kong Case Law

Financial loss
  • 12 Jan 1995

    R. v. AU WEI KEI

    Citation
    R. v. AU WEI KEI
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC356/1994

    The Court held the trial judge did not err in principle or in fact: the five year starting point for the first charge was not excessive given the $1.4 million loss; the one third guilty plea reduction was appropriate; the second offence occurred later, involved different victims and motivation, and the judge's order that the two year sentence run from the end of two years of the three years four months sentence was not wrong in principle; the aggregate four year term was not manifestly excessive.

  • 29 Mar 1985

    SHUI ON CONSTRUCTION CO LTD v. SHUI KAY CO LTD AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    SHUI ON CONSTRUCTION CO LTD v. SHUI KAY CO LTD AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA4426/1984

    The court refused to strike out the Statements of Claim because it was not plain and obvious that the contractor’s tortious claims could not succeed; on the pleaded facts a proximate relationship and foreseeable economic loss existed and authorities and obiter supported the prospect of a duty of care (and a duty to act fairly) owed by architects to contractors, so the claims disclosed a cause of action and the strike‑out applications were dismissed.