ECC 2642/1999

This case involved department of property registration fees. The court had wrongly ruled based on the assumption that the property value was more than stated in the contract without giving evidence of this.

Background

A claimant made a plea before the court against a fees order issued by the department of property registration requesting the dismissal of the order.

The court ruled that the fees order should be dismissed.

The department of property registration appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court dismissed the appealed ruling and upheld the order.

Decision

The claimant appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and said in his grounds of appeal that the ruling had insufficient evidence of causation and had violated the law and said the court established its ruling based on the argument that the price of the property which was mentioned in the contract was different from the real one although the court did not explain the source of this conclusion.