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Oral variation of agreement
  • 4 May 2007

    MA MEE KIU AND OTHERS v. CHAU CHUN YUEN

    Citation
    MA MEE KIU AND OTHERS v. CHAU CHUN YUEN
    Court
    Court of First Instance
    Case number
    HCA495/2003

    On the balance of probabilities the court found the 10-year agreement existed and discharged the 1990 buy-out insofar as it converted the instalment payments into an obligation repayable by deduction from the defendant's share of estate income for ten years; the court held the defendant remains liable to repay the indebtedness of $164,000 to the estate; the defendant is entitled to his due share of estate income from 4 April 2000; disputed assets (notably Wing Fung Laan and certain properties) were found to be gifts/beneficially owned by the defendant and not estate assets; consequential orde…