Read the full judgment text of CACV 000063/1996 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 July 1996.
1. The plaintiffs are the registered owners of various lots of land in DD124 in the New Territories. On 18th August 1995 they took out summonses under RSC O18 to strike out the defences and counterclaim and, or in the alternative, for summary judgment for repossession of the land under O14. The applications came before Master Jennings on 2nd October 1995. He dismissed them on the grounds that the plaintiffs had failed to give the appellants one month's notice of intention to proceed as provided