Read the full judgment text of CACV 000013/1990 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 4 May 1990.
1. The background to this appeal is that industrial premises at Yip Shing Street, Kwai Chung were let by the plaintiff corporation ("the respondent") to the defendant company ("the appellant") for a period of three years the term to expire on the 25th February, 1987. The premises were in fact not vacated on that date and eventually the respondent obtained a consent order from the Lands Tribunal for delivery up on the 26th February, 1988 "in a state of good repair and condition (fair wear and tea