18 Apr 2017
DIRECTOR OF LANDS v. PENNY’S BAY INVESTMENT CO LTD
- Citation
- DIRECTOR OF LANDS v. PENNY’S BAY INVESTMENT CO LTD
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FAMV59/2016
Leave to appeal was granted only on two specific questions because those questions met the required test (involvement in proposed appeal, great general or public importance, and reasonable arguability): (1) PBIL's question on the meaning and scope of 'permitted user' for godown purposes and whether that requires a building; and (2) the Director's question on whether the Court of Appeal was correct that differing factual assumptions could not as a matter of law lead to differences in before and after valuations. Leave was refused on all other questions, and the Committee agreed with the Court…