28 Nov 2000
OVERSEAS TRUST BANK LTD v. NGAI YIU MING AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- OVERSEAS TRUST BANK LTD v. NGAI YIU MING AND ANOTHER
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCMP2780/2000
A monetary claim for monies due under a mortgage is an action on the personal debt and falls within the District Court's contract monetary jurisdiction limited to $600,000; section 37(1)(c) (equity jurisdiction) does not extend the District Court's jurisdiction to monetary enforcement of a mortgage debt exceeding $600,000, therefore the proceeding was outside the District Court's jurisdiction and was transferred to the Court of First Instance.