21 Feb 2014
TANG KIM KWAN PATRICK ALSO KNOWN AS PATRICK TANG AND ANOTHER v. LEE CHI TING KAREN ALSO KNOWN AS KAREN LEE
- Citation
- TANG KIM KWAN PATRICK ALSO KNOWN AS PATRICK TANG AND ANOTHER v. LEE CHI TING KAREN ALSO KNOWN AS KAREN LEE
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV163/2012
The Court of Appeal held that on the proper construction of the plaintiff's Chinese words and on the totality of the evidence the natural inference was that Metro Harbour View was intended as a gift to the defendant, so the plaintiff's claim in respect of that property was dismissed; as to Royal Peninsula the court affirmed a resulting trust in favour of the plaintiff but held that the defendant had been given a power of sale enabling her to retain the net profit on resale, and therefore qualified the declaration and substituted orders directing sale and a specified distribution of net procee…