Read the full judgment text of DCMP 1611/2012 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 9 July 2013.
1. This is about a dispute over an apartment (“the Property”) in Kowloon which the plaintiff’s father (PW1) and the defendant had previously owned as joint tenants and occupied as a co-habiting couple. After their breaking up, PW1 severed the joint tenancy and years later assigned to the plaintiff his interest in the Property. The plaintiff, who resides not in Hong Kong but in the United States, applies for an order for sale and asks that the net proceeds be shared equally between herself and