Highland Council (Formerly Ross and Cromarty District Council) v Patience and Others (Scotland): HL 14 Nov 1996

Local Authority tenants sought to exercise their statutory right to purchase their council house. The third defendant had registered against the title a right of pre-emption protecting a feu charter registered in the Registry of Sasines.
Held: A Local Authority could sell a house to a secure tenant despite a feu charter on the title giving a right of pre-emption. The right to buy was akin to a compulsory purchase. The procedure involved clearly suggested that the tenant’s right to buy must be unimpeded.

Judges:

Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Griffiths, Lord Mustill, Lord Steyn, Lord Clyde

Citations:

Times 09-Jan-1997, [1996] UKHL 7

Links:

House of Lords, Bailii

Statutes:

Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

Jurisdiction:

Scotland

Citing:

CitedKirkness v John Hudson and Co Ltd HL 1955
Viscount Simonds said: ‘the beliefs or assumptions of those who frame Acts of Parliament cannot make the law’. While subsequent legislation could resolve ambiguity in earlier legislation, it could only do so where the subject of the subsequent . .
CitedHenderson v City of Glasgow District Council 1994
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Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Housing, Local Government, Land, Registered Land

Updated: 06 December 2022; Ref: scu.135036