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\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid13585137\charrsid11101738 rial, issuing fresh lease to 2}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid13585137\charrsid11101738 nd}{
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preme Court. He says the land in dispute is being dealt with by the Respondents in breach of an earlier stay order of this court.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 He seeks to protect that land from the Respondents' development works, in breach of the rights which the Petitioner hopes to secure from the Supreme Court.
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In this court the parties agreed to an interim order restraining the Respondents from entering the land or carrying out bulldozing works until the determination of this application.
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petitioner never applied for or secured renewal of his Crown lease over the property. The lease expired }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738 o}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337582\charrsid11101738 n 31}{
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December 1995. The petitioner was a cane farmer and farmed on the property.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  But prior to expiry, on }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337582\charrsid11101738 11}{
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid11279608\charrsid11101738 , Mr }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738 J}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 anardhan and Mr Kha
n entered into a sale and purchase agreement for Mr Khan to buy Mr Janardhan's lease. A year or so earlier the Divisional Surveyor Western, acting for the Director of Lands, provided the ANZ Bank upon request with a letter of comfort on behalf of Mr Janar
dhan. In it the Divisional Surveyor,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9337582\charrsid11101738  in a letter in standard form fo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 r this purpose, stated "}{
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Meanwhile the land was re-zoned as "General Industrial", within Lautoka city's boundary,}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
Mr Khan had applied for and been granted a change of use of the l}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738 and from "agricultural/resident}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid14903159\charrsid11101738 
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. The Director of Lands subsequently issued a new lease, but of a different category, and to the second Respondent, Khan Buses Ltd, not to the petitioner.
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Mr Suresh Maharaj, Counsel for the petitioner, argues that the Crown (now State) Lease is still in place.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 On 7}{
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November 2005 the High Court found that the rescission of the sale and purchase agreement by Mr Janardhan had occurred validly. That decision was reversed in the Court of Appeal, which assumed that the sale would thereafter proceed i
n pursuance of its appellate orders.
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Ms Natasha Khan for the Respondents argues the appeal to the Supreme Court has become irrelevant in view of the expiry of the subject matter of that agreement, the Crown Lease, and in view of the industrial lease n
ow issued in its place by the Director of Lands to Khan Buses Ltd, the 2}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 nd}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9125949\charrsid11101738  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 Respondent to this appeal. Any disagreement over the issue of the new lease could only be disputed by fresh litigation. Ms Khan said the land was irrelevant to the monetary compensa
tory orders made by the courts to date.
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [7]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
Besides finding that the petitioner had validly rescinded the contract, the High Court found that the sums paid by Mr Khan to the Petitioner were to be forfeited as liquidated damages.}{
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 November 2008.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 It allowed Mr Khan's appeal, finding as a matter of law that rescission had not taken place.}{
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 The appellants to pay to the 1}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid6045437\charrsid11101738 st}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6045437\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
respondent compound interest at the rate of 10% per annum on the sum of $70,700.00 from 8 December 1995 until the date of settlement of the sal}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738 e and purchase agreement dated 1}{
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appellants and the 1}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid6045437\charrsid11101738 st}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid6045437\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 respondent."

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 December 2008 Mr Janardhan filed his petition with this court seeking special leave to appeal. The appeal was filed in time, that is within the 42 days stipulated by Rule 4(4) of the Supreme Court Rules.
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The main plank of the grounds is that the Court of Appeal's statement of the law on rescission was incorrect.
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With the petition was filed a summons seeking an unconditional stay order until the determina
tion of the petition. Mr Janardhan filed a supporting affidavit. When the matter came on before me, sitting as a single judge of appeal, there was no real contest as to the stay. Counsel for the Respondents applied orally to stay the order for computation
 of compound interest whilst the Supreme Court dealt with the appeal. There was no cross-petition filed challenging that part of the Court of Appeal's judgment nor a stay sought by the Respondents.}{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [12]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid9783506\charrsid11101738 There was therefore in place a }{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 The salient parts of the order read:
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 .}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 That the Judgment of the }{
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 November, 2008 be stayed forthwith until the final determination of the Petition for Special Leave.
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 All further proceedings of the Court of Appeal be stayed until final determination of the Petition for Special Leave."
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [13]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 It was unusual therefore 
for a Respondent to have sought to circumvent a stay order by moving ahead with developments on a disputed property. After the stay was granted, the Respondents appeared to have walked away from the litigation, and indeed from the orders they had sought a
nd obtained in the Court of Appeal.
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 For the time being, til}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738 l }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
the determination of the special leave application, the orders of the Court of Appeal remain intact though stayed. Those orders quoted above recognise that the vendor had title to pass on to
 the Respondents. As Lord Chancellor Lord St. Leonard observed in }{\b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 Birch v Joy}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
 [1851-52] 111 HCC 565 at 578 "That which is unappealed from remains as before." That is the position now facing the Respondents. Having come to the Court of Appeal and pressed fo
r orders in their favour they cannot now fail to acknowledge the effect of those orders without obtaining the consent of the other party who is similarly bound by those orders.
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [15] There is perhaps understandably very little evidence presented by the Res
pondents with such orders in place as to how they managed to secure from the Director of Lands over Mr Janardhan's title a fresh lease on the same property. There is no explanation provided by the Director, who was one of the original Defendants in the Hi
g
h Court trial. With the emphatic "will be renewed" in his letter, it is surprising the Director, through his agent, the Divisional Surveyor Western, did not first approach the existing lessee Mr Janardhan to ensure he did not wish to continue with the ren
ewal. After all the Divisional Surveyo}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10380403\charrsid11101738 r's letter of explanation of 4}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\super\langnp2057\insrsid10380403\charrsid11101738 th}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738  November 2008 in explaining the }{\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 volte face,}{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738  referred to the fact that the transfer of the
 property to Khan Buses Limited was consented to and stamped on 28.10.98. This appeared to recognise continuing rights of Mr Janardhan on the property after the expiry in 1995.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 He wrote "The transfer was from you, Janardhan to Mohammed Nasir Khan," But was this not to be a fresh lease altogether upon the expiry?
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The Director recognised Janardhan's continuing rights and capacity to renew, and his ability to transfer his lease to Mr Khan.
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Mr Janardhan believes the obtaining of an industrial lease over the property to be a breach of the stay order.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
He deposed "That the industrial lease has been issued and the entire process appears to be a "foul play" against me."
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [18]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 The new lease was exe
cuted on 4.5.09, the Commissioner of Stamp Duties endorsed on the lease that stamp duties were paid on 4.5.09, and the lease was registered with the Registrar of Titles also on 4.5.09. Mr Janardhan said it was surprising that all these things happened on 
one day. This comment was not answered by the Respondents.
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The full court may ultimately agree with the Respondents that the two matters, the Court of Appeal's orders on the sale of the land and the issuance of the industrial lease, are separate matters.}{
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [20]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 Long a}{
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ter the expiry, the Director of Lands as a litigant, never argued that Mr Janardhan had lost his rights to renewal of the lease. Nor di
d the Director appeal the High Court decision on the basis that the judge had wrongly found that Mr Janardhan had a remaining interest in the lease to pass on.
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At this stage, the issue is live, and the Petitioner is entitled to preserve his ability to}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 resume the lease.}{
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The trial judge was not satisfied of the bona fide nature of the Respondents' dealings, a conclusion upheld by the Court of Appeal.}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 The breach of the existing stay and the manoeuvres over the new lease may be further manifestations of that approach.
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 [22]}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
As a matter of caution, I grant the Petitioner the further orders he seeks pending determination of the appeal.
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\par }{\b\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 President}{\b\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
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\par }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 Solicitors for the Petitioner:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 
Messrs Suresh Maharaj & Associates, Lautoka
\par Solicitors for the Respondents:}{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid16593812\charrsid11101738  }{\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2776463\charrsid11101738 Natasha Khan & Associates, Suva}{
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