ECC 4214/67

This case involved a claim by some land owners that the correct procedures had not been followed when land had been taken from them by the authorities as part of agricultural reform. Disputes of distribution of land involved the jurisdiction of the judicial committee so the appeal should not have been referred to a judicial authority.

Background

Some land owners filed a case before the Court of First Instance against the purchasers of the land and the Public Authority for Agrarian Reform requesting the court to cancel a decision issued by the Public Authority for Reform to make use of the land and hand it over to him because his predecessor was benefiting from this property, but it has been redistributed and then sold to buyers without following the legal procedures to cancel his use.

The court rejected the case. The plaintiffs filed an appeal before the Court of Appeal who dismissed the Court of First Instance ruling and the requests.