An intriguing case concerning the selling on of ‘ding” rights is currently taking place in the High Court. Case No. HCA 265/2012 involves one plaintiff, Kwan Hung Shing (關雄盛), as executor of Ho Shuk Ming (何淑明), deceased, and 21 defendants including Sai Kung District Councillor Christine Fong.
According to previous court records, briefly stated, the plaintiff was the registered owner of certain pieces of land in the New Territories. She had entered into agreements with the developer for the development of building small houses on the pieces of land. Through various agreements, her pieces of land were held by the “dings”, who are indigenous males, entitled to erect small houses on the pieces of land under the Small House Policy of the Government. Those dings have no interest in the pieces of land. They were only paid a fee to allow the relevant applications under the policy to be made in their names. The plaintiff is dissatisfied with the progress of the development and she claimed against the developer and all those dings, seeking an order to set aside the various agreements for the recovery of the pieces of the land. The plaintiff claimed that those agreements were illegal contracts or against public policy. They are void and liable to be set aside.
Sai Kung District Councillor Christine Fong is accused of manipulating the ding rights transaction, and also of spending $12 million to buy land to build houses for profit in Sai Kung Tai Mong Tsai village, but in violation of the agreement has been slow to sell the land of women from the village.
BUZZ will be following the case as it unfolds over the ten days of the trial.
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