WONG CHEE SING (OR WONG CHE SING) (BY HIS NEXT FRIEND WONG TAK KWAN LILIAN) V. HUNG WAH (孔华) TRADING AS TAK HING LUNG MEDICINE CO. AND ANOTHER
10 cases cited
(0 SG, 10 foreign)
Practice Areas
Judges (3)
Summary
Adverse possession dispute over a ground floor property at 50 Battery Street, Kowloon. The plaintiff Wong Chee Sing (through next friend) claimed the 1st defendant Hung Wah, trading as Tak Hing Lung Medicine Co, had extinguished the plaintiff's title through adverse possession. The Court of Appeal (Kwan VP, Cheung and G Lam JJA) found the defendant had been in adverse possession and dismissed the plaintiff's appeal with costs.
Statutes Cited
Limitation Ordinance (Cap 347)
Rules of the District Court (Cap 336H)
Cases Cited (10)
UK (5)
[1969] 2 AC 19 [1990] 1 Ch 623 [1990] Ch 623 [2003] 1 AC 419 [2004] EWCA Civ 1369
HK (5)
[1998] 1 HKLRD 241 [2002] 3 HKLRD 1 [2016] 1 HKLRD 464 [2019] HKCA 734 [2020] HKDC 1032
Judgment
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Read on HKLIISource: HKLII ([2025] HKCA 534)