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The court held that an ancient, inactive mortgage did not prevent good title, and that conveyancing evidence cured identity and death-related requisitions.
The court held that the vendors had shown good title to the land, rejected the purchaser’s title requisitions, and ordered completion of the sale within four weeks.
The District Court held that statutory declarations and supporting evidence sufficiently showed that Tai You and Tai Chee Iu were the same person for title purposes.
The Court of First Instance held that the plaintiffs had shown good title despite an identity discrepancy in title documents, and no costs order was made.
Leave for judicial review of a disciplinary committee decision was refused because the Institute's challenges to expert evidence, proof, and no-case reasoning failed.
The Court of Appeal allowed a solicitor’s appeal against a disciplinary finding, holding the evidence did not prove the requisite knowledge or involvement in a profit-cost sharing arrangement.
The court held that late statutory declarations and supporting documents were enough to satisfy two requisitions on title about discrepant signatures.
The court construed section 5(4)(b) of the Powers of Attorney Ordinance to mean the purchaser’s purchase, not the earlier transaction with the attorney.
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