NANYANG COMMERCIAL BANK TRUSTEE LIMITED (suing as the administrator of the estate of LAI KAM, deceased) v (1) LAI YUEN SING

Read the full judgment text of CACV 000094/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 28 October 1997.

1. Lai Kam ("the deceased") died in Hong Kong in 1994. He died intestate. He had had 8 children, all by his first wife. She had died 9 years earlier in 1985. However, it is claimed that the deceased had married for a second time. Madam Yip King Yuet claims that she married him in China in November 1986. Whether she did so or not will determine whether she is entitled to a majority share in his estate, and whether she has priority as against the deceased's children to administer the estate.