WONG TIN PING (黃天平) alsoknown as 黃天明 and 黃傑天明 v JEFFREY DE LA CRUZ, representing theEstate of YU CHUT also known asWONG ENG YEE, YU CHUT GIAO YULIN and WONG CHI LAI, and also knownas 楊卒, 黃英宇, 黃英雨, 黃英羽, 黃英生 and 黃志禮, the Deceased

Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 3506/2024 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 31 March 2025.

1. This is a rather strange claim of proprietary estoppel, based on an alleged oral assurance made in 1970 (ie 55 years ago) by the registered owner ( “the Deceased” ) of the residential premises known as “Tenement B on 1 st Floor, No. 84 Nga Tsin Wai Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong” ( “the Premises” ) in favour of the plaintiff ( “P” ), who was one of the Deceased’s many children. The Deceased passed away in the Philippines in July 1972 (ie close to 53 years ago) at the age of 55. P said no person had

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