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Registered Land - From: 2000 To: 2000
This page lists 5 cases, and was prepared on 27 May 2018.
R v Surrey County Council Ex Parte Bridge Court Holdings Ltd and Others Gazette, 24 February 2000
24 Feb 2000
QBD
Planning, Registered Land
Land was transferred to a company but the transfer not registered. The land had the benefit of a certificate of lawfulness of existing use for waste disposal. Doubts had arisen in the local authority about the correctness of the certificate, and they revoked it. They failed to serve the new owners or an occupier of part of the land. They failed also to investigate the circumstances as advised by their officers. The revocation was set aside as Wednesbury unreasonable.
Secretary of State for the Environment Transport and the Regions v Baylis (Gloucester) Ltd; Bennett Construction (UK) Ltd v Baylis (Gloucester) Ltd Times, 16 May 2000; Gazette, 31 May 2000
16 May 2000
ChD
Land, Registered Land
Land once conveyed for the purposes of becoming a highway, became dedicated for that purpose even though no steps were ever taken for its use for that purpose. The registration of a company as proprietor by the Land Registry did not displace the dedication since the interest was an over-riding one under the Act.
Land Registration Act 1925 - Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989
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Collinge v Lee and Another; CA 26-Oct-2000 - Times, 26 October 2000; Gazette, 02 November 2000; Gazette, 09 November 2000
Habermann v Koehler and Another (No 2) Times, 22 November 2000
22 Nov 2000
CA
Land, Registered Land
A house owner allowed occupiers in and gave a informal option for them to buy it. He later charged it and sold the property to the chargee in satisfaction of the debt. Before buying it the mortgagee enquired of the occupiers as to whether they intended to purchase the property, and their reply did not mention the option. The court held that the enquiry was sufficient enquiry and that though the option was capable of being an overriding interest, the reply was in terms which did not protect that option. The land was taken not subject to the option. The relevant time was on the purchase, not the taking of the mortgage.
Land Registration Act 1925 70(1)(g)
Mayor and Burgesses of London Borough of Lambeth v George Bigden and Others [2000] EWCA Civ 302; (2001) 33 HLR 43
1 Dec 2000
CA
Lord Justice Simon Brown Lord Justice Mummery And Lord Justice Latham
Registered Land, Limitation
A block of flats had been occupied over several years by a succession of squatters. The present occupiers appealed an order for possession, and the authority appealed refusal of possession for other flats. The occupiers asserted possessory title. Held: The earlier occupiers had sought licences from the authority, and had submitted petitions. The letters and petitions constituted an acknowledgment of the authority's title, and the claims for adverse possession failed.
Land Registration Act 1925 75
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