Read the full judgment text of HCA 012520/1998 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 17 June 2000.
1. The defendant is a property developer, whose business is to acquire land in the New Territories and build small houses for sale. On 1 February 1992, it entered into a development agreement with the owners of a piece of land in Demarcation District No. 375. The land consisted of two lots, Lot Nos 600 and 649 which was carved out into six sub-lots, namely Lot Nos 600A, 600B, 600C, 649A, 649B and 649C, for the purpose of building one small house on each sub-lot. Two of the houses to be built on