4 Jul 1970
CHAN WOO LAI SHEUNG v. CHAN KEONG
- Citation
- CHAN WOO LAI SHEUNG v. CHAN KEONG
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMC58/1970
The court held that the respondent's persistent drug addiction combined with refusal of sexual intercourse, absence of maintenance, a prior assault, repeated imprisonments and the petitioner's reasonable apprehension for her health constituted cruelty; those facts also made cohabitation virtually impossible and amounted to constructive desertion, justifying a decree nisi.