Case Analysis

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.

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

Ascertaining a boundary
Legal enquiries
Horizontal and vertical limits (Bernstein v Skyviews Ltd (1977) 241 EG 917)
Boundaries in leases

Land Registry Rules
The “general boundaries” rule.
Determining a boundary by agreement (Joyce v Rigolli [2004] EWCA Civ 79)
Land Registry plan requirements.
Determining a boundary by application.

Common law rules
Land adjoining a highway.
Land adjoining a river.
The hedge and ditch rule.
Land adjoining the foreshore.

Adverse possession
Claims to unregistered land –the traditional 12 year rule.
Claims to registered land – the 10 year rule in Schedule 6 LRA 2002.
Claims to registered land (based on a twelve year period of adverse possession completed prior to October 13th 2003) –the old 12 year rule and section 75 LRA 1925.
J.A. Pye (Oxford) Limited v Graham [2002] UKHL 30
Beaulane Properties v Palmer [2005] All ER (D) 413.

Other issues
Dealing with Crown cautions.
The Party Walls etc. Act 1996.
The Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992.

Case Law Digest
Sandhu v Farooqui (2003) Court of Appeal, 3 March
Topplan Estates Ltd v Townley [2004] EWCA (Civ) 1369
Seeckts v Derwent [2004] NPC 51.
Herbert v Pegrum [2005] EWCA Civ 120.
Liaqat v Majid [2005] EWHC 1305 (QB).
Palfrey v Wilson [2007] EWCA Civ 94.
Derbyshire County Council v Fallon [2007] EWHC 1326 (Ch).
Liaquat Ali v Robert Lane [2006] EWCA Civ 1532.
Haycocks v Neville [2007] 04 EG 186 (CS).
Udal v Dutton [2007] EWHC 2862 (TCC).
National Westminster Bank plc v Ashe [2008] EWCA Civ 55
Strachey v Ramage [2008] EWCA Civ 384
Piper v Wakeford [2008] EWCA Civ 1378
Ofulue v Bossert [2009] UKHL 16
Port of London Authority v Ashmore [2009] EWHC 954 (Ch).
Frazer v Brown [2009] EWHC 2692 (Ch)
R (on the application of Smith) v Land Registry (Peterborough Office) [2010] EWCA Civ 200.
Star Energy Weald Basin Limited v Bocardo SA [2010] UKSC 35.
Stadium Capital Holdings (No 2) Ltd v St Marylebone Property Company Plc [2010] EWCA Civ 952.
Diep v Land Registry [2010] EWHC 3315 (Admin).
Rosebery Ltd v Rocklee Ltd & Anor [2011] EWHC B1 (Ch).
Baxter v Mannion [2011] EWCA Civ 120.
Hopkins v Beacon (2011) Ch D 13 April.