Read the full judgment text of HCA 001115/1995 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 11 March 1997.
1. A Tso is an institution for holding ancestral land. The Liu Yau Pak Tso (the Tso) is the owner of a piece of land in the New Territories (the land). The plaintiffs are the registered managers of the Tso. Under section 15 of the New Territories Ordinance (Cap. 97) the managers "... shall, after giving such notices as may be prescribed, have full power to dispose of or in any way deal with [the land] as if [they] were sole [owners] thereof, subject to the consent of the Secretary for Home Affai