Read the full judgment text of HCA 003541/2002 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 31 March 2006.
1. The plaintiff is a chartered architect, and the defendant is the owner of a piece of land, (“the Land”) with a four-apartment block on it, lying just above the St. Stephen’s Beach at 22 Wong Ma Kok Road, Stanley. In January 1997, the defendant instructed the plaintiff to apply to the Lands Department for a lease modification to permit gross floor area (“GFA”) calculation to cover the whole of the Land. The agreement between them provided for payment of a retainer fee and a bonus fee. The p