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Compensation for extinguished rights
  • 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
    FAMV64/2016

    The Appeal Committee refused most applications for leave to appeal, holding that only questions meeting the test — involved in the proposed appeal, of great general or public importance, and reasonably arguable — should be granted leave; applying that test the Committee granted leave only on (1) PBIL's question on the meaning and scope of a permitted user for 'godown purposes' (in particular whether it requires a building) and (2) the Director's question on whether the Court of Appeal was correct that different factual assumptions could not as a matter of law produce differences in before and…