THE HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF SURVEYORS

Code	:	2011115
Event Name	:	Land Boundary Survey in Hong Kong with Particular Reference to Past Court CasesLand Boundary Survey in Hong Kong with Particular Reference to Past Court Cases
CPD Code	:	Formal Events
Speaker	:	Mr. Leung Shou Chun, MBE, HKIS Past President, Managing Director of Leung Shou Chun Land Surveying Consultants Limited
Event Date	:	2011-11-29
Event Time	:	6:30 pm - 8:00 pm (Tuesday)
Registration Closing Date	:	2011-11-22
CPD Hour(s)	:	1.5
Venue	:	Surveyors Learning Centre, Suite 811, 8/F., Jardine House, Central, Hong Kong
Division	:	LSD
Fee	:	HK$100
Priority	:	-3
Language	:	Cantonese supplemented by English
Details	:	Mr. S. C. Leung started his career as a survey technician in early 1956 in the Crown Lands & Survey Office (equivalent to the Lands Department nowadays). Having been awarded with a Government Scholarship, he completed the Army Survey Course No. 31 in UK in 1964 and returned Hong Kong to continue his service in the same office. He gained the professional qualification as a member of RICS in 1966 and was promoted to the Land Surveyor in the same year. Through subsequent promotions to Senior Land Surveyor, Chief Land Surveyor, Government Land Surveyor (same as the Assistant Director nowadays) in the duration, he was finally appointed as the Principal Government Land Surveyor (Deputy Director nowadays) in 1995. He retired from Government in early 1996 when he was honoured with a MBE. By the end of the same year, he established a private survey firm, Leung Shou Chun Land Surveying Consultants Limited and acted as the Managing Director up to the present. Throughout his career, Mr. Leung has been serving the professional institutes in many capacities. He was three times as the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Land Surveyors and once as the President of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He was the Fellow member of the former Institute which has now defuncted and also Fellow of HKIS and Fellow of RICS. On the academic side, Mr. Leung has been engaged in many teaching activities including lecturing, advising, acting as an external examiner, and as a mentor. He had been appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in mid-2000's. His other social service included the serving as an advisor in the Construction Industry Training Authority and a member of the Law Reform Committee (Adverse Possession). Mr. Leung is a regular writter on survey related items and travelling articles. He had served the HKIS as the editor of a colume in the Hong Kong Economic Journal. At the time of running short of contribution from members of the HKIS, he had written on this Journal once a week for years to maintain the colume. With his 55 years experience in land surveying, he is no doubt among the longest active practising surveyors in the profession. The speech will cover basically the land boundary survey in the New Territories which must refer to the DD Survey. The opening messages to be delivered by the speaker are twofolds:- (a) the DD Sheet may not be considered as gospel but must be subject to interpretation by the expert, i.e. the land surveyor, and (b) the precision of the DD graphical boundary which is generally considered as about 2 or more metres may not necessarily be the confining limit. If old aerial photographs or survey sheets can be reasoned (again by the land surveyors) to be reflective of the original occupational features, they may be referred to for enhancing the accuracy of the DD boundary. For the land surveyor to be able to persuade people to accept the above ideas, the land surveyor must firstly convince himself of the truth of these ideas. This speech will discuss the significance of the boundary lines as drawn on the DD sheet so as to establish the fact that these lines must be subject to interpretation. And how the old aerial photographs and survey sheets may help interpret the contents of the DD sheet. As the related subject, the speaker will refer to his experience in dealing with the lawyers and discuss on what advice the land surveyor should give to them in a land boundary dispute case. Following this, the discussion will end on how a boundary survey should be conducted and how the report be compiled to achieve results. Members are advised members to read a following paper before attending the CPD. Survey & Built Environment, Vol. 19 Issue 1, December 2008, pages 26 to 37, Titled: The reality versus the legality of the Demarcation District Sheets. A pdf copy of the paper can be downloaded from http://www.hkis.org.hk/ufiles/2008-scleung.pdf
Payment	:	HKD 100
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