16 Jun 1969
LI TANG SHI v. LI WAI KWONG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- LI TANG SHI v. LI WAI KWONG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA1763/1967
Court held that registration and appointment of managers for a memorial bearing the expression 'Tso' in the New Territories customually indicates family land registerable under section 15; consequentially the 1912 registration created family/Tso status. However the appointment of the 1st defendant as additional manager on 22 November 1965 was invalid because it did not follow the statutory procedure in s.15 (the District Officer cannot appoint a manager absent prior family/tong appointment), and the order removing the plaintiff on 8 November 1967 was void for breach of natural justice because…