LO CHAN WAN suing for and on behalf of members of the TOWN PLANNING BOARD for an Order of Certiorari and Declarations v APPEAL BOARD

Read the full judgment text of on BabelCite. was delivered on 24 January 1996.

1. This case concerns a vast tract of unbuilt land in the New Territories. Planning permission for the development of such land had been sought from the Town Planning Board ("the Planning Board"). The Planning Board refused such permission. Dissatisfied, the developers appealed to the Town Planning Appeal Board (“the Appeal Board”). Allowing that appeal, the Appeal Board granted such permission. Whereupon the Planning Board took the developers and the Appeal Board to the High Court seeking judic