Read the full judgment text of HCMP 002890/1985 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 19 February 1986.
1. In recent times, much private land in the New Territories has been acquired by the Government of Hong Kong for urban development under a non-statutory scheme of land exchange entitlements, commonly but loosely known as Letters A/B. Instead of paying compensation for land resumed compulsorily under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance (Cap 124), the Government issued a letter A or B to the landowner, offering him cash or other land in exchange on certain terms. These choses in action are freel