Read the full judgment text of CACV 000247/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 May 1997.
1. This is an appeal from an order of Cheung J. made on 18 November 1996, striking out the writ (and statement of claim) in an action commenced on 21 June 1994. The plaintiff in the action is one Lau Wong Fat, who claims to be (and no doubt is) an indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories, in which capacity he sought by his writ to prevent "the Government of Hong Kong" from promoting legislation providing (in derogation of the Chinese custom prevailing in the New Territories) for women, in th