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Crown awarded “squatter’s rights” - BBC News

“The Queen has won ’squatter’s rights’ over large tracts of the Severn Estuary in a dispute with a controversial Cardiff businessman.”

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BBC News, 20th February 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Ashe (Trustee in bankruptcy of Djabar Babai) v National Westminster Bank plc - WLR Daily

Ashe (Trustee in bankruptcy of Djabar Babai) v National Westminster Bank plc [2008] EWCA Civ 55; [2008] WLR (D) 40

“Where a mortgagor was in exclusive possession of his mortgaged property, and the mortgagee had for more than 12 years failed to protect its security by taking steps to enforce its right to possession or to obtain payment from the mortgagor, such possession was ‘adverse possession’ for the purposes of the Limitation Act 1980 and ran in the mortgagor’s favour and against the mortgagee; and the latter’s right of action, having accrued more than 12 years before, was extinguished under the Act.”

WLR Daily, 11th February 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Ofulue and Another v Bossert - Times Law Reports

Ofulue and Another v Bossert

Court of Appeal

“Where a party contended that a right to property had been breached, the English court had to apply a margin of appreciation in taking into account the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg.”
The Times, 11th February 2008

Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

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Ofulue and another v Bossert - WLR Daily

Ofulue and another v Bossert [2008] EWCA Civ 7; [2008] WLR (D) 22

“The Court of Appeal should follow a decision of the European Court of Human Rights that the law of adverse possession as it stood prior to the Land Registration Act 2002 did not violate the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, guaranteed by art 1 of Protocol No 1 to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”

WLR Daily, 31st January 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.


 

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