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Last year we reported the decision R (Smith) v Land Registry [2009] EWHC 328 (Admin) in which the High Court held (amongst other things) that it was impossible to acquire land by adverse possession if that land was subject to a public highway. At the time I...
Andrew Henley v Shelly Bloom [2010] EWCA Civ 202 This was a second appeal to the Court of Appeal of a first instance decision that Mr Henley's claim for disrepair against his former landlord, Ms Bloom was an abuse of process, the first appeal to a Circuit...
Ashcroft v Bradford & Bingley Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 223 Mr Ashcroft purchased a property with the aid of a mortgage from Bradford & Bingley in 1990. He failed to make a single payment and an SPO was obtained in April 1991. He breached the terms of the...
We have been aware of Coombes v LB Waltham Forest (Sec of State intervening) noted at [2010] All ER (D) 59 and on Lawtel, decided on 08.03.2010 in an extempore judgment (Cranston J), but waiting for the full transcript to be provided by the High Court. The...
Is it too much to hope that - finally - the Government might take steps to ameliorate and / or prevent the use of Ground 8? During the passage of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, the Government gave a commitment to look again at the use of inter alia,...
We have had confirmation that the appeal of the decision in Richardson v Midland Heart (our detailed note here), on shared ownership, assured tenancies and leasehold interests, has been discontinued. Rumour has it that there is another appeal in a similar...
Cadogan v Chehab [2009] EWHC 3297 (Admin), (only available on Casetrack) is noted in the current edition of Legal Action, but, so far as I can tell, hasn't been picked up anywhere else. It's only worthy of a short note though, which is set out below. Chehab...
A friend of NL (who will remain nameless unless he wants to out himself in the comments) has asked if we would post a question about statutory periodic assured tenancies, in order to try and generate a bit of debate (and, perhaps, even work out the answer to...
[with apologies to the most cited, and brilliant, socio-legal article: Marc Galanter, "Why the 'haves' come out ahead: Speculations on the limits of legal change"] Mr Justice Beatson dismissed a renewed application for judicial review in R(Husband) v...
Islam v Yap and Others. Claim No: TLQ/09/1130. High Court, 20 November 2009. This was a claim for unlawful eviction and a tale worthy of a play by Ben Jonson. There were no less than 5 defendants, and such superfluity necessitates an opening description of...
LB Harrow v Ibrahim C‑310/08 on reference from the Court of Appeal (LB Harrow v Ibrahim and another [2008] EWCA Civ 386. Our note here). The question was whether: (a) children of EU citizens who have installed themselves in a member state during the exercise...
The Court of Appeal has ruled on a Sale and Rent Back matter and on its connection to Tenancy Deposit Protection.