Category: estoppel

Newport City Council v Charles – WLR Daily

Posted July 22nd, 2008 in estoppel, housing, law reports by sally

Newport City Council v Charles; [2008] WLR (D) 245

“A local authority’s right to possession against a person succeeding to a tenancy on the death of a family member other than a spouse on the ground that the accommodation was more than he reasonably required was not an interest in land capable of giving rise to a proprietory estoppel against the tenant. Accordingly, a tenant who concealed his mother’s death for three years in order to avoid being moved to a different property could not be ousted on that ground because the time limit for doing so had expired before the local authority discovered his mother had died.”

WLR Daily, 21st July 2008

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Thorner v Major and others – WLR Daily

Posted July 4th, 2008 in estoppel, law reports, wills by sally

Thorner v Major and others [2008] EWCA Civ 232; [2008] WLR (D) 222

“A dedicated help and service in reliance upon a statement did not bind his estate by conscience to create a proprietary estoppel to confer the farm to the claimant even if the deceased had given the farm to the claimant by a will which he subsequently revoked to deny an interest to a third person.”

WLR Daily, 3rd July 2008

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Kosmar Villa Holidays plc v Trustees of Syndicate 1243 – Times Law Reports

Posted March 11th, 2008 in accidents, estoppel, insurance, law reports by sally

Kosmar Villa Holidays plc v Trustees of Syndicate 1243

Court of Appeal

“Where insurers acknowledged a claim under a policy knowing that the insured had failed to comply with a condition precedent in the notification clause, they did not elect to waive the insured’s failure and accept liability.”

The Times, 11th March 2008

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