[1] This was an appeal by the appellants (the applicants in the High Court) against the decision of the learned judge of the Kuantan High Court given on 8 November 2012 dismissing the appellants' application (encl 13) dated 14 September 2012 for an interim stay until the final disposal of the pending judicial review proceedings.We heard the appeal on 19 December 2012, wherein at its conclusion we unanimously dismissed it with costs. We now give our reasons for so deciding. For convenience, we will refer to the parties in this judgment to the title assigned to them in the Court below.

[2] To make the point under discussion easier to understand, we think it is useful to state briefly the factual background and the sequence of events leading to the present appeal. The applicants are residents of the town of Kuantan, Kg Sungai Ular, Damansara Kuantan Township, and/or are registered proprietors of landed properties in the areas in the Dist