Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000379/1989 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 10 May 1989.
1. On 30 May 1973 Louis Aristide Charles Louvet, a French citizen, and Mioko Sakurada, a Japanese citizen, were lawfully married in Paris. As regards their respective worldly goods a contract for Separation de Biens was concluded. Thereafter the parties lived together in France for some two and a half years until 1975 when the husband's calling as an international banker took him to Hong Kong where his wife joined him. At the end of 1979 the wife left Hong Kong and her husband for good and has l