Read the full judgment text of HCAP 000006/1991 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 24 April 1998.
1. This is a probate action. It has attracted considerable publicity - partly because some of the evidence was given by video link, but primarily because the outcome of the case depends to a great extent on the legal status of concubines in China up to 1949. It is surprising that the inheritance of the estate of a woman who died intestate in Hong Kong in 1987 should depend on the resolution of that issue, but the law sometimes leads us down unexpected paths.