Case summaries
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Green and another v Wheatley
Parties owning adjoining land – Defendant building garage – Claimants claming paper title to disputed land – Defendant claiming adverse possession – Whether intention to possess an appropriate degree of…
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East Staffordshire Borough Council v Fairless
Council owning property – Tenant purporting to serve notice of intention to bring proceedings for statutory nuisance – Nuisance remedied prior to service of summons – Whether notice validly served…
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Collins v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Development — General Development Order — Permitted development within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse — Summer house — Large garden — Whether development within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse –…
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Evans v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Planning permission — Development — Metropolitan green belt — Continued use for existing building — Appeal building situated on smallholding — Agricultural use as beef enterprise — Enterprise not viable…
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Foyle v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Proper construction of 1988 permission for retention of established industrial development – Enforcement notice prohibiting independent open storage – Whether extraneous evidence admissible to demonstrate intended scope of grant -…
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Hackney African Organisation v Hackney London Borough Council
Business premises held by four persons on trust for charitable unincorporated association – Landlords serving section 25 notice – Tenant serving counternotice that unwilling to give up possession – Landlords…
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Popoff and another v Jebb and others
Title purportedly conveyed by trustees — Title held by different trustees — Whether beneficiaries received proceeds of sale — Whether remaining trustee obliged to convey — Approbation and reprobation –…
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Waltham Forest London Borough Council v Secretary of State for the Environment and another
Issue of certificate — Land to be acquired for trunk road — Secretary of State for Environment deciding issue on basis of written evidence — Refusal to hold inquiry –…
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Milton Keynes Development Corporation v Cooper (Great Britain) Ltd and another
Underlease — Assignment — Agreement that assignee should have same rights and benefits as original underlease — Whether parties had entered into binding agreement entitling assignee to exercise put option…
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McManus Developments Ltd v Barbridge Properties Ltd and another
Purchase of land and premises — Land intended for development — Fence enclosing disputed strip with land for sale — Disputed strip belonging to another property — Ownership of disputed…
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Francis v Brown
Landlord and tenant – Tenant evicted by landlord and landlord’s daughter – Daughter convicted under Protection from Eviction Act 1977 – Tenant seeking damages against both landlord and daughter -…