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S.4(6) directions
  • 6 May 2016

    FIRST KIND LTD AND ANOTHER v. CHOI FEI MAN RONNIE AND ANOTHER

    Citation
    FIRST KIND LTD AND ANOTHER v. CHOI FEI MAN RONNIE AND ANOTHER
    Court
    Lands Tribunal
    Case number
    LDCS13000/2014

    The Tribunal held that while it has a discretion under s.4(6)(a)(i) to give directions to enable separate applications' sales to be conducted together (parallel directions) and the six applications should be heard and tried together, s.4(6) does not confer substantive power to change the Schedule 2 reserve price formula. Consequently the reserve price must be assessed by reference to each lot(s) the subject of each application ('on its own' or 'on their own' as confined by the LCSRO) and where several auctions are synchronized the total reserve will be the aggregate of individually assessed r…