[1] This is an appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal which had dismissed the appellant's appeal against the High Court decision given on 14 February 2004. We reserved our judgment after hearing this appeal to be given at a later date. We do so now.

Facts

[2] The brief facts in this appeal as found in the grounds of judgment of the Court of Appeal (pp 13-14 appeal record Jilid 1) are as follows:-

A portion of the Appellant's land ie, 3.744 acres held under title No HS(D) 196, PT No 2355 Mukim Ulu Bernam Timur district of Batang Padang, Perak ("the scheduled land") was acquired. The said acquisition was made pursuant to s 8 of the Land Acquisition Act 1960 and gazetted on 6 July 2000.

The scheduled land is a freehold land comprising 18.9768 acres