30 Jun 2015
DR. YIP CHI HIM ROGER AND ANOTHER v. LEE KWOK LEUNG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- DR. YIP CHI HIM ROGER AND ANOTHER v. LEE KWOK LEUNG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA356/2009
Court found plaintiffs (Yip/Capital) made false and fraudulent representations that Tabatha was a clean pink‑sheet shell and that reverse‑merger would be used; Lee relied on those representations and was induced to pay US$350,000 under Tabatha Contract; no contemporaneous or credible evidence justified a consensual change to direct filing or any written amendment; rescission was valid and restitution awarded. On defamation, Lee's allegations that Yip had defrauded were substantially true and s.26 applied to any ancillary imputations about an honorary doctorate; plaintiffs' defamation claim fa…