Compensation
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Wards Construction (Medway) Ltd v Barclays Bank plc and another; Barclays Bank plc v Kent County Cou
Acquisition of land for highway purposes — Land required to provide access to development land — Court of Appeal holding that compensation principle correctly applied — Whether order land had…
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Director of Buildings and Lands (Hong Kong) v Shun Fung Ironworks Ltd
Resumption of land — Company required to give up site — Business closed down and relocated — Fair compensation payable — Lands Tribunal holding that business extinguished — Cost of…
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Church Cottage Investments Ltd v Hillingdon London Borough Council
Refusal of planning permission — Group of connected flats already held to be one building at earlier hearing — Whether development within para 3 of Schedule 8 to the Town…
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Simmonds v Kent County Council
Blight notice — Compensation price agreed — Keys handed to acquiring authority — Whether interest payable on unpaid compensation from date keys handed over — Whether entry taken — Reference…
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Mallick v Liverpool City Council
Appellant owning and letting property – Council exercising compulsory purchase power and acquiring property – Appellant claiming compensation and advance payment – Delay – Compensation received five years after vesting…
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Welsh Aggregates Ltd v Clwyd County Council
Town and country planning — Mining operations — Planning permission subject to conditions — Alleged breach — Enforcement and stop notices — Enforcement notices quashed or withdrawn — Prohibition in…
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Wrexham Maelor Borough Council v MacDougall and another
Disturbance payments — Compulsory acquisition of business premises — Compensation — Proper construction of provisions for disturbance payments where personal lessee in occupation but company engaged in business — Whether…
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Halstead v Manchester City Council
Compulsory acquisition of two churches – Council agreeing compensation figure based on cost of rebuilding one of them – Council meeting building cost by staged payments – Whether interest payable…
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Owen and another v Secretary of State for Transport (No 3)
Purchase of property — Proposed bypass — Secretary of State refusing to purchase property — Plaintiffs suffering loss — No compensation available under statute until completion of bypass — Plaintiffs…
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Wrotham Park Settled Estates v Hertsmere Borough Council
Injurious affection — Housing development by local authority — Breach of restrictive covenant for benefit of neighbour’s land — Amount of compensation — Whether neighbours entitled to diminution in value…
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Owen v Secretary of State for Transport (No 3)
Purchase of property – Proposed bypass – Secretary of State refusing to purhase property – Plaintiffs suffering loss- No compensation available under statute until completion of bypass – Plaintiffs claiming…
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R v Secretary of State for the Environment, ex parte Plymouth City Airport
Applicant owner, operator and responsible authority for airport carrying out works at airport – Respondent issuing certificate stating that works were apron alterations – Claims for compensation made – Whether…