Land Law : Customary land - Whether provisional leases issued to third parties gave indefeasibility of title to the holders, especially when they were bone fide purchasers for value of the leases from original lease holders - Whether claimants' right to seek compensation for any loss of alleged rights in personam could override third parties' indefeasible rights to the relevant lands

Native Law And Custom : Indefeasibility of title - Effect of a claim of Native Customary Law ('NCR') on indefeasibility of title under s 132 Sarawak Land Code - Whether positive finding of the existence of NCR would overrule indefeasibility of title of land and the interest stated in issue document of title issued before NCR was asserted - Whether indefeasibility of title of the land would prevail over such claim of NCR

Native Law And Custom : Land dispute - Customary rights over land - Native's land alienated to third party without payment of compensation to native - Whether grant of provisional lease subject to NCR over lands - Whether native's rights extinguished - The operation of s 5(3) and (4) Sarawak Land Code