Adverse possession
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Smith v Frankland and another
Adverse possession – Evidence – Common character of locality – Claim by appellant to acquire title by adverse possession allowed in relation to garage but rejected in relation to adjoining…
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Fencing or enclosing land is the classic way, but not the only way, of establishing exclusive possession of land.
There was no dispute between the parties in Heaney v Kirkby [2015] UKUT 178 (TCC); [2015] PLSCS 121 as to the law that applies in the case of claims to…
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Best v Chief Land Registrar
Adverse possession – Registration of title – Criminal trespass – Land Registration Act 2002 – Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 – Application to register title to…
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The law that criminalises squatting in residential buildings does not prevent squatters from applying to be registered with title to them
Squatting in residential buildings became a criminal offence when section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 came into force, even though the squatter went…
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Best v Chief Land Registrar
Title to land – Adverse possession – Criminal trespass – Paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to Land Registration Act 2002 – Section 144 of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of…
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Best v Chief Land Registrar
Case No: CO/2847/2013. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION. ADMINISTRATIVE COURT. Royal Courts of Justice. Strand, London, WC2A 2LL.
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The court can undo registrations induced by fraud or lack of proper care.
Balevents Ltd v Sartori [2014] EWHC 1164 (Ch); [2014] PLSCS 221 concerned the ownership of land in front of leasehold premises in Birmingham, which was registered to the council.
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It is not always easy to decide what constitutes implied permission to occupy land
A person seeking to persuade a court that they have been in adverse possession of land must show that they have had exclusive possession of that land, that they had…
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Smart v Lambeth London Borough Council
Title to land Adverse possession
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Smart v Lambeth London Borough Council
Adverse possession – Consent of landowner – Respondent council acquiring residential properties by compulsory purchase – Squatters then taking up occupation – Occupation regularised by scheme for grant of temporary…
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Couper and another v Albion Properties Ltd and others
Land – Moorings – Adverse possession – Claimants owning barges, boats and pontoons moored on River Thames – Claimants claiming adverse possession of river bed and wharf – Claimants claiming…
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PP 2013/134
Time ran against a landlord who had allowed an oral periodic tenancy to continue after the tenant stopped paying rent .