Read the full judgment text of HCMP 002320/2000 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 December 2001.
1. This case concerns certain lots of land at Lo Wu in the New Territories which were used as fish ponds prior to their resumption by Government on 13 July 1998. The defendant is the registered owner of the lots concerned. The plaintiff which is a company incorporated in Shenzhen claims a possessory title to the lots by reason of their continuous adverse possession of them since the early 1970s, and up to the date of resumption. What is at stake, since the Government has resumed the lots, is not