5 Nov 2024
LEUNG KAM LIN by her next friend LEUNG WAI MAN v. CHENG MEI WA
- Citation
- [2024] HKDC 1849
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ877/2022
The court awarded damages to restore the plaintiff to the position she would have been in absent the void tenancy: market rent for the occupation period (HK$183,470.96) less payments received (HK$28,000) = HK$155,470.96 for use and occupation, plus indemnity for unpaid utilities (HK$1,464.10) and recoverable consequential expenditure (HK$15,100.00), totaling HK$172,035.06, with interest from the date of writ at HSBC best lending rate plus 1% until judgment and judgment rate thereafter, and costs summarily assessed at HK$82,795.