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Hong Kong Case Law

Amendment of ordinance
  • 29 Jan 1982

    CHAN PAK WAI v. THOMAS YOUNG AND OTHERS

    Citation
    CHAN PAK WAI v. THOMAS YOUNG AND OTHERS
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ9443/1981

    The amended s.53(2)(e) must be read to extend contractual terms into the period of statutory continuance so that a landlord's statutory right to possession accrues only where the tenant's subletting breached the prior contractual tenancy; because the pleaded tenancy did not prohibit subletting there was no breach and no cause of action under s.53(2)(e), so the amended particulars of claim were struck out.