7 Jan 1998
LAU YUE KUI v. LAU LEUNG CHAU AND OTHERS
- Citation
- LAU YUE KUI v. LAU LEUNG CHAU AND OTHERS
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP3924/1995
The court held the DFA of 20 March 1946 is valid and binding: no ancestral worship trust was shown to have been properly established (no required registration or other positive steps), the DFA was properly carried into effect by distribution, exclusive possession and receipt of rents and benefits over decades, formal defects did not invalidate it under Chinese custom or Hong Kong law, s.15 N.T. Ordinance did not negate the division in these circumstances, and equitable considerations favored maintaining the long‑standing division; accordingly the defendants' counterclaim alleging a binding on…