Read the full judgment text of FACV 000003/2002 on BabelCite. This FACV judgment was delivered on 17 January 2003.
1. Any person whose property is compulsorily acquired has a constitutional right to compensation according to the property's "real value". Article 105 of the Basic Law so provides, thus entrenching a promise made in Section VI of Annex I of the Joint Declaration. In such circumstances, the role which the Joint Declaration and the Basic Law play in preserving Hong Kong's pre-handover system drew Mr Robert Tang SC for the Director of Lands into submitting at one stage that no pre-handover law was