CPI Update - Issue 25 - June 2005

The following cases were reported in the June 2005 issue of the CPI Update:

• Circular Facilities (London) Limited v Sevenoaks DC – The contaminated land rules;
• Cobbe v Yeomans Row Management Ltd (High Court) – Pre-contract costs incurred in subject to contract negotiations; section 2 Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989;
• Abbott v Will Gannon & Smith Ltd– Cause of action in a construction contract dispute;
• CDC2020 Plc v Ferreira – Abandonment of an easement;
• Grantham Christian Fellowship v The Scouts Association - Adverse possession;
• Clowes Developments (UK) Ltd v Walters - Adverse possession;
• Generay Ltd v The Containerised Storage Company Ltd - Adverse possession;
• Herbert v Pegrum – Boundaries; rivers and streams; the ad medium filium rule (viae or aquae).