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Hong Kong Case Law

Tenant obligations
  • 16 Apr 1999

    KAMSHAN HOLDINGS LTD. v. CHAN TUNG MAN

    Citation
    KAMSHAN HOLDINGS LTD. v. CHAN TUNG MAN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA7959/1997

    Defendant breached Clause 4 only in failing to remove chattels (filing cabinets); many alterations were ameliorating and unactionable, but certain alterations to the Second Premises (conversion for hoisting, conversion of residential sanitary/kitchen facilities and related changes converting residential character) constituted voluntary waste requiring reinstatement; plaintiff entitled to fair estimated reinstatement and professional costs totaling HKD 80,650; claim for loss of rent disallowed; costs to follow the event subject to District Court scale with order nisi.