JUDGMENT

Augustine Paul JCA:

The applicants entered into four agreements in 1998 for the purchase of certain estate lands from the respondents subject to certain conditions. The respondents are a co-operative society and are the registered owners of the estate lands which were used for the planting and cultivation of oil palm and an oil palm mill was erected on one of the lands. The applicants and the respondents soon had disputes over the completion of the agreements and several legal proceedings were instituted by them. Sometime in 2001 the respondents took over possession of the estate lands. This resulted in the applicants obtaining an interim injunction against the respondents on 26 September 2001. However, the interim injunction was dissolved by the High Court of Temerloh on 2 April 2002 though an Erinford Order was granted in favour of the applicants which resulted in them obtaining possession of the estate lands. The applicants appealed to the Court of Appeal on the dissolution of the interim injunction. It was dismissed on 12 May 2003 and the Erinford Order lapsed. An oral application made by the respondents for consequential relief for possession was refused. The responde