TO KAN CHI (陶根池)TO FUK TIM (陶福添)TO KAM CHAU (陶鑑籌)as managers of theTO KA YI T'SO (陶嘉儀祖) v TO CHEONG LAM (陶昌林)TO SIU LAM (陶兆林)TO MEI LUN (陶美粦)TO MAN HING (陶萬興)andTO MUK TAI (陶木泰)(as representatives of the To Clan)

Read the full judgment text of HCMP 006907/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 12 January 1999.

2. It is useful to set out a little of the background. I gratefully take this from Mr Patrick Fung's skeleton - he appears for the Secretary for Justice. There are two temples - the Tsing Wan Kun and the Tsing Shan Monastery. It appears that they have been run as one for a long time. The Tsing Wan Kun Temple is situated within the Tsing Shan Monastery. Each was built on land which is the subject of various Crown leases. Each at one time had managers appointed under s.15 of the New Territories Or