27 Jun 1996
KONG WAN v. HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY
- Citation
- KONG WAN v. HONG KONG HOUSING AUTHORITY
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1972/1996
The June 1961 letters constituted a solemn governmental promise creating a legal licence/right for the residents who were living at Rennie’s Mill to occupy their cottages indefinitely; serving Notices to Quit in breach of those promises without recognizing them or offering compensation amounted to an abuse of power; the matter was justiciable by judicial review but the appropriate remedy was damages (not quashing the notices), and entitlement to damages is personal to those who resided there in 1961 and remain when assessed.