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…