3 Jun 2019
Eton Properties Limited, Eton Properties (Holdings) Limited v. 厦門新景地集團有限公司 formerly known as 厦門市鑫新景地房地產有限公司
- Citation
- [2019] HKCFA 21
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FAMV7/2019
The Court refused leave on questions that were fact-specific or involved settled law and granted leave on re-formulated questions that raise points of law of general importance: specifically the proper requirement of causation in the tort of inducing breach where the contracting party may have breached absent inducement; whether Hong Kong property and trust law may operate to transfer equitable title despite a foreign governing law clause in a share sale agreement; and whether the jurisdiction of Hong Kong courts enforcing Mainland arbitral awards by common law action is affected by the statu…