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Hong Kong Case Law

Registration/status of temporary structures
  • 17 May 2017

    傅玉桂 對 詹偉文

    Citation
    傅玉桂 對 詹偉文
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ714/2016

    The usage agreement necessarily and reasonably included implied conditions that the occupier must use the land and any temporary structures in accordance with the government's registration and lease conditions; the defendant altered the registered structures so they no longer matched Land Department records, thereby breaching those implied conditions which were conditions entitling the plaintiff to terminate; the defendant's asserted proprietary title was legally untenable and a 2004 third‑party representation did not excuse the breach; plaintiff validly terminated by notice and is entitled t…