A rice farmer won judgement in his favour last Friday when former acting Chief Justice Ian Chang ruled that he be restored his land since the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agricultural Development Authority (MMA-ADA) had no authority to cancel his lease.
“In the instant case, it was not open to the MMA-ADA to determine the legal validity or invalidity of the grant of the lease and then to purport to cancel it on the basis of its own legal finding,” Justice Chang declared.
In the affidavit supporting his motion, farmer Phillip Johnson said that on July 15, 2014, upon an
