Read the full judgment text of CACV 000071/1999 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 15 July 1999.
1. The 1st Defendant is an indigenous villager in the New Territories. He was in the happy position of being entitled to build a village-type house on land granted by the Government. Apart from building a house for self occupation, it is apparently not uncommon for the value of the entitlement to be exploited by getting small scale developers to construct village-type houses of which individual floors can be sold off as separate units. Thus two houses or blocks were constructed by the 2nd and 3r