Circumstances have changed and access road no longer needed, court says
By
K. C. Vijayan, Law Correspondent
FOR more than 30 years, Madam Ching Mun Fong fought and failed to get the courts to close off an access road running through her Grange Road property to a neighbouring plot of land.
But in a rare move, the Court of Appeal has overturned a decision that a previous appeals court made three years ago and granted Madam Ching her wish.
The decision brings to an end decades of legal tussles linked to the prime piece of property near Orchard Road worth more than $500 million.
The Court of Appeal - comprising Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and Judges of Appeal V.K. Rajah and Andrew Phang - held that circumstances had changed and the access road was no longer needed.
China-born Madam Ching has been a developer and property investor for more than 50 years. She worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong before coming to Singapore in the 1950s.
