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Tang v Tang [2008] HKCA

In an interesting case where the surname of all parties (3 plaintiffs and 4 defendants in the original action) and the judge who delivered the main judgement are “Tang”, the Hong Kong court of appeal had to decide a case involving the distribution of assets belonging to an “ancestral tong” which principal object was “…to facilitate the continued worship of the common ancestors and proper maintenance of the ancestral halls and graves…” and which had existed for over 200 years.

The court of appeal decided that a distribution decision made in 1982 could not be binding on the tong in respect of future decisions in perpetuity and approved an injunction on further distribution of money in the form of “relief of poverty”. The distribution of “shoe money” (HK$500 p.a. to each “manager” in the tong), “book money” (HK100 per student) and “pork money” (HK$60) were expressly “ carved out” (i.e. not prohibited) from the injunction! (25 January 2008).



January 2008

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