The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1956] AC 358
[JUDICIAL COMMITTEE]
KAI NAM (A FIRM) APPELLANTS; AND MA KAM CHAN RESPONDENT.
[AND CONNECTED APPEALS.] ON APPEAL FROM THE APPEAL COURT OF HONG KONG.
1956 Mar. 8.
LORD OAKSEY, LORD TUCKER, LORD COHEN, LORD KEITH OF AVONHOLM and Mr. L. M. DE SILVA.
Hong Kong
— Landlord and tenant
— Business premises
— Claim to possession
— “Entirely new buildings”
— Excluded from operation of Act
— Test of “new building”
— Estoppel
— Cannot be founded on representation of law
—
Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (Hong Kong) No. 25 of 1947, s. 3 (1) (a).
Estoppel
— Conduct, by
— Law, representation of
— Cannot found estoppel
— Landlord and tenant. Landlord and tenant.