Key legal question
Whether the appellants could invoke good-faith protection against the uplifted valuation
Extracted holding
They could not rely on prior conduct of the land-registry official or on the 2006 registration, because the earlier proceedings concerned different matters and the conditions for legitimate reliance were not met.
Extracted reasoning
The LAFE authority and the land registry office were not identical decision-makers, and the earlier binding decision concerned only LAFE applicability. Any omission in 2006 did not satisfy the strict requirements for good-faith protection in tax matters.