24 Dec 1971
LAM PAK v. HOP HING (A FIRM)
- Citation
- LAM PAK v. HOP HING (A FIRM)
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV7/1971
Appeal dismissed. The Full Court held the appellants could not raise for the first time on appeal the new factual/legal contention that the premises were an "entirely new building" because that contention was inconsistent with the case actually pleaded and argued below; the District Judge's factual findings that the premises had been continuously untenanted after the war and rendered habitable by extensive landlord repairs were supported by contractor evidence, estimate and receipts and established expenditure in excess of seven years' standard rent, bringing the premises within s.3(1)(d) and…