26 Sept 2016
LEIGHTON PROPERTY CO LTD AND ANOTHER v. TOWN PLANNING BOARD
- Citation
- LEIGHTON PROPERTY CO LTD AND ANOTHER v. TOWN PLANNING BOARD
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV22/2015
Articles 6 and 105 of the Basic Law are engaged when Town Planning Board planning restrictions encroach upon landowners' property rights; such encroachments must be justified by a proportionality analysis incorporating a three-step test (legitimate aim, rational connection, minimal impairment) and a fourth-step fair-balance inquiry; where the Board's statutory planning decisions are unimpeachable on traditional judicial review grounds, they will generally be reviewed on the narrower 'manifestly without reasonable foundation' standard reflecting the Board's margin of discretion, but the court…