Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000385/1987 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment.
1. Wong Wai Tsak Tong (the "Tong") is the registered owner of almost ninety per cent of all the private land on Cheung Chau Island under a Block Crown Lease dated 18th March 1905. That Crown Lease runs till three days before the end of June 1997 and is registered in the Land Office. The Tong, in its turn, has sub-leased most of that land. In all, the Tong has made something like five hundred such sub-leases. Most of those sub-leases are for a term of five years, renewable on the same terms unt