Read the full judgment text of HCA 000877/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 20 May 1999.
2. The Plaintiffs were the purchasers and the Defendant was the vendor of a house in a housing project known as "Palm Springs" in Yuen Long ("the suit property"). The Plaintiffs claimed in this action they were entitled to rescind the sale and purchase agreement dated 30 October, 1997 ("the Agreement") pursuant to Clause 12(a) thereof. Further, they claimed (at paragraph 9 of the Statement of Claim) that the illegal structures affected the Defendant's title to the suit property. Based on these c