Read the full judgment text of CACV 000200/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 December 1996.
1. The respondent to this appeal is Madam Fok Lai Ying, the owner of an agricultural lot in the New Territories, namely Lot No. 853 RP in Demarcation District No. 194, Shatin. A three-storeyed village-styled house is erected on one extremity of the lot (a building licence having been granted for this purpose in 1982), leaving the rest of the lot, nearest to a public road, as an open paved area. Madam Fok and her family have been living in the property since the middle of last year. Before then,