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LDPD1041/2025
LDPD 1041/2025
Case Details
Case ReferenceLDPD1041/2025
CourtLands Tribunal 土地審裁處
Date Published2026-03-20
LanguageTraditional Chinese
Claimant / ApplicantLandlord
Defendant / RespondentTenant
Judges彭浩泉
Claimant Counsel陳易謙律師
Claimant Solicitors隆安律師事務所 (香港) 有限法律責任合夥
Judgment Summary
Facts
- •Lease commenced 14 April 2025; rent arrears from 14 July 2025.
- •Claimant filed possession claim on 11 August 2025.
- •Parties signed Surrender Agreement on 14 August 2025.
- •Defendant vacated premises but Claimant did not withdraw case.
- •Hearing on 16 January 2026 proceeded in Defendant's absence.
- •Costs order of $3,500 made against Defendant on 16 January 2026.
- •Defendant applied to set aside costs order on 20 January 2026.
- •Tribunal found Claimant's agent had apparent authority.
Issues
- •Validity of costs order made in absence.
- •Apparent authority of Claimant's agent (Mr. Lam).
- •Contractual acceptance and counter-offer analysis.
- •Tribunal's jurisdiction on costs under Lands Tribunal Ordinance.
Outcome
- •Costs order from 16 January 2026 set aside.
- •No costs order for 16 January 2026 hearing.
- •No costs order for 20 January 2026 application.
- •Underlying claim withdrawn.
Implication
- •Reinforces apparent authority doctrine in agency.
- •Confirms Tribunal power to set aside absent orders.
- •Clarifies interaction between settlement terms and costs orders.
- •Highlights equity in procedural fairness.
Laws & Authorities Cited
- §Lands Tribunal Ordinance (Cap. 17), s.8
- §Lands Tribunal Ordinance (Cap. 17), s.10(1)
- §Lands Tribunal Ordinance (Cap. 17), s.12(1)
- §Landlord and Tenant (Consolidation) Ordinance (Cap. 7), s.117(3)(b)
- §Lands Tribunal Rules, r.15
- §Lands Tribunal Rules, r.69
- §Rules of the High Court, O.35, r.2
- §Practice Direction 19.2
- §陳健康對宋麗兵 DCCJ 3176/2008
- §Ridge Ltd v Golden Castle Ltd [2005] 3 HKC 592
- §Charmway Development Ltd v Long China Engineering Ltd [2001] 3 HKC 515
- §Fortune Global Development Limited v. Shung Cheong Food Trading Limited HCA 1786 of 1999
- §Li Ching Wing v Xuan Yi Xiong [2004] 1 HKC 353
- §Penn v. Gatenex Co Ltd [1958] 2 QB 210
- §Yu Yiu Kong Samuel v Kobylanski, Stephen Andre DCCJ 15371/2000
- §Jones v. Green [1925] 1 KB 659
- §Fortune Global Development Limited v. Shung Cheong Food Trading Limited [2002] 2 HKLRD 447
- §Shun Ho Energy Development Company Limited 及其他人 訴 Golden Crown Industries Limited CACV 161/2014
- §Lee Siu Fong Mary v Ngai Yee Chai [2006] 1 HKC 157
- §Hyde v Wrench (1840) 3 Beav 334
- §Norfolk County Council v Dencora Properties Ltd (1995)
- §Freeman & Lockyer v Buckhurst Park Properties (Mangal) Ltd [1964] 2 QB 480
- §Hely-Hutchinson v Brayhead Ltd [1968] 1 QB 549
- §Auxil Pty Ltd and Anor v. Terranova & Ors (2009) 260 ALR 164
- §Thankakharn Kasikorn Thai Chamkat (Mahacon) v Akai Holdings Ltd (No.2) (2010) 13 HKCFAR 479