5 May 2021
TANG CHEUK CHUEN (鄧灼全) ALSO KNOWN AS 鄧灼銓 對 TANG WAI CHEE (鄧尉池)，以其個人身份及其鄧巡撫堂司理的身份
- Citation
- [2021] HKDC 523
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ520/2017
The court held the hall is a s15 recognised ancestral hall governed by Chinese customary law; the plaintiff and his male descendants are members of the specified family share (鄧盤安's branch) and are entitled to half of that branch's interest. The parties' branch shares were quantified (each branch 21.09375% of the hall). The defendant, as manager, had fiduciary duties and breached them by withholding distributions; defendant was ordered to pay the quantified sums provisionally, to provide documentation for 2017–2020 income, and to pay interest (compound interest at 5% p.a. from 2004 to judgmen…