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Hong Kong Case Law

Export licence fraud
  • 15 Feb 1988

    MO MUN TAI INC. v. JUNEJOIN LIMITED

    Citation
    MO MUN TAI INC. v. JUNEJOIN LIMITED
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA5470/1987

    Defendant breached a vital contractual term by supplying a forged export quota licence, thereby frustrating the export and sale; plaintiff entitled to damages for direct losses proven and allowable (part payment, customs penalty, freight, storage, cost of fabrics) but loss claimed for Merry Mary's resale was disallowed for inadequate evidence; judgment entered for plaintiff for the sum assessed with interest and costs.