17 Sept 1984
ELVERA KWONG MAN LING v. RAYMOND K. HUNG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- ELVERA KWONG MAN LING v. RAYMOND K. HUNG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Lands Tribunal
- Case number
- LDLA292/1984
The Tribunal held that the Commissioner's advisory figures under the Private Tenancy Allowance scheme are internal administrative advice and not an exercise of statutory powers under Cap.7 and therefore carry no evidential weight unless the Commissioner is called; subjective factors such as tenancy allowance eligibility and landlord mortgage obligations are irrelevant to the objective determination of prevailing market rent; applying weight to the respondents' expert comparables with a modest allowance for corner influence the Tribunal fixed the prevailing market rent at $4,400 per month from…