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Hong Kong Case Law

Oral subcontracting agreements
  • 21 Jun 2024

    YU GUO QIANG v. LI CHUN PUI

    Citation
    [2024] HKDC 1006
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ3979/2021

    On the evidence (WhatsApp messages, security guard photos, contemporaneous correspondence and adverse inferences from Defendant's failure to call key witness and silence in contemporaneous communications) the court found the first two payments totaled HK$260,000 were for the 1st Oral Agreement and the third payment HK$120,000 for the Central Project; the works on the 16th and 17th floors were worth HK$25,000 and unpaid; Defendant committed conversion of Plaintiff's tools (excluding five challenged perishable/items) and damages assessed by applying a 20% depreciation to proved purchase price r…