15 Jul 1996
HONEST TONE LTD. v. LI LIN KWO and Another
- Citation
- HONEST TONE LTD. v. LI LIN KWO and Another
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA5270/1993
The appeal was dismissed. The judge concluded that in light of the Privy Council\'s Lam Island decision a 20-year limitation period may straddle 1 July 1973 and on the assumed facts the defendants\' adverse possession defence necessarily succeeded; additionally the question whether part performance can apply to s.3 Statute of Frauds is tenable and should go to trial; finally, the complex question of aggregating successive periods of possession is controversial and inappropriate to decide on this interlocutory appeal, so the Master\'s order setting aside the default judgments was correctly lef…