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Introduction
In Wong Chi Hung v Lo Wing Pun ([2026] HKCFA 14) the Court of Final Appeal decided that the range of factors test enunciated by the UK Supreme Court in Patel v Mirza was to be applied where claims (such as a claim in unjust enrichment is tainted by illegality). The judgment is also important, however, for what it said ...
Grant v Jackman [2026] UKPC 13 is an important Privy Council decision on deeds registration and competing claims to land. Its central message is not that common law title ceases to matter, but that under a registration statute of the Irish model, priority between competing deeds is governed primarily by the statutory order of registration rather than ...
Introduction
The relationship between the common law principle of nemo dat quod non habet—the doctrine that one cannot give what one does not possess—and the statutory regime of the Land Registration Ordinance (Cap. 128) (‘LRO’) has long been a source of academic and practical tension in Hong Kong land law. While the LRO is a system for the...
Background
The judgment in the recent Northern Irish case of Preston v Preston ([2026] NI CH 3) is a useful example of how proprietary estoppel operates at the interlocutory stage.
The background is a family dispute. Andrew Preston is one of twenty nephews and nieces of William Preston. Under William’s will he is just one of the b...