16 Jun 1981
PAO YUEN TUNG HSING YIEH CO LTD v. PAO HSING COTTON MILL LTD AND OTHERS
- Citation
- PAO YUEN TUNG HSING YIEH CO LTD v. PAO HSING COTTON MILL LTD AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA765/1981
The court refused defendants' strike-out applications based on laches and limitation because it was not plain and obvious that those defences must succeed given possible factual explanations (notably political constraints) and issues of discovery; however the Statement of Claim against the 1st Defendant was struck out because the pleaded facts did not, as a matter of law, establish an express or resulting trust in the company's assets nor justified piercing the corporate veil to grant the relief sought.