Read the full judgment text of CACV 001005/2000 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 6 December 2000.
1. The Applicant is the landlady of a flat in Causeway Bay. The Respondent is her tenant. The rent is $11,500.00 a month payable in advance on the 5th day of each month. The tenant paid the first month's rent due on 5 February 2000, but since then she has fallen into arrears. She claims that the landlady was not around to collect the rent, but it could be said that she should have put aside the rent to enable her to pay it when the landlady re-appeared. Eventually on 21 August, the landlady obta