In Tang Ching v Wu Wan Yau ([2013] HKEC 363, CFI) T claimed to have been in adverse possession of W’s land since 1976. He claimed that his possession had initially been under the terms of an oral tenancy but that this had been ended by W’s predecessor in 1976 and that T refused to leave. T failed since there was insufficient evidence of the necessary possession and intention to possess for the full twenty year period. T had roped off the land, perhaps as early as 2001. There was not sufficient evidence of T being in possession or having an intention to possess before that. The 2001 photographic evidence showed some trees but they showed an ‘overgrown, neglected plot with some trees.’
