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Mo Ying v Brillex Development Ltd and Another

[2015] 2 HKLRD 985; [2015] HKCA 156
JurisdictionHong Kong
CourtCourt of Appeal (HKCA), High Court
Year2015
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A common-intention constructive trust over a sole-name property requires an actual (express or inferred) common intention that the claimant have a beneficial interest, plus detrimental reliance and unconscionability; marriage alone, without more, is insufficient to infer such an intention.

Area of Law

Equity, Trusts & Restitution

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Libertarian Investments Ltd v Hall (2013) 16 HKCFAR 681; [2013] HKCFA 93
Cheung Pui Yuen and Others v Worldcup Investments Inc and Others (2009) 12 HKCFAR 31

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