Easements

This document contains key points and case case commentaries (from the CPI Update 2003 to present) covering the following issues and cases:

• The essential ingredients of an easement
• Easements on lease renewal
• Easements for charges of part
• The rule in Harris v Flower
• Duration and perpetuities (Dunn v Blackdown Properties)
• Parking rights
• The extent of rights of way and drainage
• Rights to light
• Abandonment of easements and extinguishment on merger
• Registration of easements
• Priority protection
• Creation through express, implied and presumed grant

This document contains case commentary from the CPI Update 2003 - 2008 on the following cases:

Massey v Boulden [2002] EWCA Civ 1634.
Bakewell Management Ltd v Brandwood [2003] EWCA Civ 23.
Central Midlands Estates Ltd v Leicester Dyers Ltd (2003) Ch. Div. January 21.
Macepark (Whittlebury) Limited v Sargeant (Ch) March 5, 2003.
Colchester and East Essex Co-op Ltd v Kelvedon Labour Club [2003] EWHC 1401 (Ch).
Wesleyvale Ltd v Harding Homes (East Anglia) Ltd (2003) Ch.D 9 Sept.
Cardwell v Walker [2003] EWHC 3117 (Ch).
McAdams Homes Ltd v Robinson [2004] EWCA Civ 214.
Bakewell Management Ltd v Brandwood [2004] UKHL 14.
Hotchkin v McDonald [2004] ECA Civ 519.
Sweet v Sommer [2004] EWHC 1504.
Midtown Limited v City of London Real Property Company Ltd [2005] EWHC 33 (Ch).
Sweet v Sommer [2005] EWCA Civ 227.
CDC2020 Plc v Ferreira (CA (Civ Div)). May 05, 2005
City of London Corporation v Intercede 1765 Ltd [2005] NPC 103.
Wilkins v Lewis [2005] EWHC 1710 (Ch).
Kent v Kavanagh [2006] EWCA Civ 162.
Carter v Cole [2006] EWCA Civ 398.
Jones v Cleanthi [2005] EWHC 2646 (QB).
Regan v Paul Properties DPF No.1 Ltd [2006] EWHC 1941 (Ch).
Crane Road Properties LLP v Hundalani [2006] EWHC 2066 (Ch).
Tamares (Vincent Square) Ltd v Fairpoint Properties (Vincent Square) Ltd [2006] PLSCS 195.
Regan v Paul Properties DPF No.1 Ltd [2006] EWHC 1941 (Ch).
Owers v Bailey [2006] PLSCS 200.
Williams v Sandy Lane (Chester) Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 1738.
Dixon v Hodgson [2007] 04 EG 188.
Bexley London Borough Council v Maison Maurice Ltd [2006] EWHC 3192 (Ch).
Tamares (Vincent Square) Ltd v Fairpoint Properties (Vincent Square) Ltd [2007] PLSCS 29.
Jacklin v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2007] EWCA Civ 181.
Megaro v Di Popolo Hotels Ltd [2007] PLSCS 55.
Wall v Collins [2007] EWCA Civ 444.
RHJ Ltd v FT Patten (Holdings) Ltd [2007] EWHC 1655 (Ch).
Moncrieff v Jamieson [2007] UKHL 42.
Risegold Ltd v Escala Ltd [2008] EWHC 21 (Ch).
RHJ Ltd v FT Patten (Holdings) Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 151.
Housden v Conservators of Wimbledon & Putney Commons [2008] EWCA Civ 200.
Forsyth-Grant v Allen [2008] PLSCS 90.
Brooks v Young [2008] PLSCS 153.