9 Mar 2015
CHENG SIN YAU AND ANOTHER v. WONG KAM PIU DICKY
- Citation
- CHENG SIN YAU AND ANOTHER v. WONG KAM PIU DICKY
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP98/2015
The court refused to exercise its discretion to grant the declarations because the declarations sought were in substance advisory: there was no justiciable dispute or threat of enforcement, and granting such relief would risk opening the floodgates; accordingly the application for declarations was dismissed despite the statutory arguments about expiry of registration and limitation.