27 Oct 2005
CITISCAPE (HK) CO v. KWEI KEE CONSTRUCTION LTD
- Citation
- CITISCAPE (HK) CO v. KWEI KEE CONSTRUCTION LTD
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ7283/2002
Plaintiff breached the sub-contract by late delivery (components arrived 23 May 2002) and by exceeding contractual installation periods; the Defendant did not unequivocally waive its right to claim damages by accepting late delivery or urging the Plaintiff to "catch up"; additional transportation and supervision costs were a foreseeable type of loss given the parties' knowledge of site constraints and integration with the Main Contract and were not too remote; on the evidence and expert assessment the court awarded HK$85,800 as additional costs and set that against the balance claimed by the…