Real property and conveyancing
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R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, ex parte Wheeler
Crichel Down Rules –– Disposal of land –– Exemption from requirement to offer to original owner –– Land to be offered for park-and-ride scheme –– Whether decision to apply exemption…
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Whitbread plc v UCB Corporate Services Ltd
Mortgage –– Interest –– Simple or compound –– Deed of priority –– Capital sum and interest thereon –– Whether deed gave priority to sum that included compound interest
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Jolley v Carmel Ltd
Contract for sale of land –– Completion conditional on buyer obtaining planning permission –– Whether implied term that buyer would use reasonable endeavours to obtain permission within a reasonable time…
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Attwood and others v Bovis Homes Ltd
Easements –– Prescription –– Drainage easement –– Radical alteration of dominant tenement –– No increase in quantity of water through servient tenement –– Whether prescriptive easement lost or suspended on…
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Caradon District Council v Paton and another
Restrictive covenants –– “Right to buy” –– Private dwelling-house restriction –– Holiday lets –– Whether use for holiday purposes occupation for dwelling-house purposes
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Mortgage Corporation v Shaire and others
Trusts — Joint ownership — Family home — Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 — Whether order for sale — Whether previous law on section 30 of…
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Jolley v Carmel Ltd
Contract for sale of land –– Completion conditional on buyer obtaining planning permission –– Change of scheme –– Planning appeal –– Whether implied term that buyer would use reasonable endeavours…
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Aston Cantlow Parochial Church Council v Wallbank and another
Chancel repairs –– Chancel Repairs Act 1932 –– Whether liability of lay rector of part of rectorial lands uncertain –– European Convention on Human Rights –– Article 1 of First…
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JA Pye (Oxford) Ltd and another v Graham and another
Adverse possession –– Animus possidendi –– Whether squatters satisfied requirements of actual possession, animus possidendi and adverse possession for limitation period –– Whether warning-off cautions and issue of originating summons…
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29 Equities Ltd v Bank Leumi (UK) Ltd
Sale of land — National Conditions of Sale — Leasehold flat — Whether landlords’ consent to assign the leasehold ‘cannot be obtained’ — Whether vendors entitled to rescind — Leasehold…
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29 Equities Ltd v Bank Leumi (UK) Ltd
Sale of land — National Conditions of Sale — Leasehold flat — Whether landlords’ consent to assign the leasehold ‘cannot be obtained’ — Whether vendors entitled to rescind — Leasehold…
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Price and another v Bouch and others
Restrictive covenants in Victorian scheme of development–Mutual covenants arising under deed executed in 1895–Co-operative scheme between ‘mutual covenantors’ administered by a committee originally set up by 53 tradesmen for the…