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1. This was a cross-appeal by the Defendant in the action against the dismissal of her counter-claim. The Plaintiff’s appeal has been dismissed for want of prosecution. The proceedings arose out of a written agreement for a tenancy of two structures in the New Territories, which the Defendant let to the Plaintiff for a term of eighty months from 15th May 1969 to 14th January 1976. For reasons to which I shall return the structures were demolished by officers from the District Office of the New T