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Hong Kong Case Law

Effect of acceptance of rent
  • 17 Mar 2020

    黃潔貞 對 和穎

    Citation
    [2020] HKDC 107
    Court
    District Court
    Case number
    DCCJ5937/2018

    The court found as a matter of fact that after expiry of the fixed terms the three defendants' tenancies became periodic monthly tenancies because rent was paid monthly; the termination notices were valid and the landlord did not intend to create new tenancies despite receipt of some rents after notice; defendants failed to demonstrate any bona fide defence or triable issue and thus summary judgment was appropriate; mesne profits were awarded at the previous monthly rents from specified dates until vacation; one defendant's counterclaim was struck out as disclosing no reasonable cause of acti…