Grand Wayfair Investment Co Ltd v. Chan Yung Kan t/a Luk Yau Yau Organic Vegetable and Others

Read the full judgment text of HCA 558/2007 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 18 October 2013.

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Case No.HCA 558/2007
Court
High Court CFI
Date18 Oct 2013
Judge
Case Document
100%Judiciary

HCA 558/2007

IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE

HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE

ACTION NO. 558 OF 2007

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BETWEEN

  GRAND WAYFAIR INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED
( 大華發企業有限公司 ) 
Plaintiff
  and  
  CHAN YUNG KAN (陳容根) trading as LUK YAU YAU ORGANIC VEGETABLE
( 綠油油本地有機蔬菜/田園 )
1st Defendant
  NG TUNG (伍銅) 2nd Defendant
  WONG KIN MIN (黃鏡明) 3rd Defendant

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Before: Deputy High Court Judge Seagroatt in Court
Dates of Hearing: 23 to 25 July 2013 and 3 October 2013
Date of Judgment: 18 October 2013

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CORRIGENDUM

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Please note paragraph 100 in the Judgment handed down on 18 October 2013 should read:

“The Plaintiff’s action therefore fails under the Limitation Ordinance(s) and the Second Defendant is entitled to a declaration as to its title as adverse possessor. The interlocutory judgment obtained by the Plaintiff against the First Defendant is an empty judgment and cannot be enforced because the First Defendant was never in occupation of the land, never claimed title as an adverse possessor, and was at all times and remained an agent of the Second Defendant in the latter’s use of the land. The judgment against the Second Defendant is unenforceable and must be ignored. The Third Defendant who was a short-term co-occupier of the land from about 1963 ceased all degree of occupation in or about 1973. Neither he (now deceased) nor his family should have been involved in this action.”

Dated the 22nd of October 2013

(Bernard Wong)
Clerk to Deputy High Court Judge Seagroatt