Zarb and another v Parry and another: [2011] EWCA Civ 1306; [2011] WLR (D) 331
“To defeat a claim to title to land by adverse possession under the Land Registration Act 2002 on the basis of an interruption which stopped time running, the paper title owner was required to show possession to the exclusion of the person claiming adverse possession.”
WLR Daily, 15th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Geoffrey Boycott, the former Yorkshire and England cricketer, launched a £1m-plus claim against lawyers he says let him down on a property deal.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The High Court retains control of the Day List of applications at the Land Registry. Retrospective reinstatement can be ordered but ordinarily will not be where a third party interest has since arisen.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 5th September 2011
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
Swift 1st Ltd v Colin and others [2011] WLR (D) 262
“The holder of a charge over a property had full power of sale under the Law of Property Act 1925 irrespective of the fact that the charge had not been substantially registered. All that was required to exercise that power was for the mortgage to have been executed by deed.”
WLR Daily, 27th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Silkstone and another v Tatnall and another [2011] EWCA Civ 801; [2011] WLR (D) 230
“While a party to a reference before a Land Registry adjudicator under section 73(7) of the Land Registration Act 2002 could not be prevented from withdrawing his case, the adjudicator had a discretion as to whether, in all the circumstances, he should make an order terminating the reference, and on what terms, or continue to determine the substantive matters raised by the reference.”
WLR Daily, 14th July 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“The Land Registry, the government department that logs land and property ownership in England and Wales, has paid out more than £26m since 2006 compensating victims of a recurring property fraud.”
The Guardian, 15th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Baxter v Mannion [2011] EWCA Civ 120; [2011] WLR (D) 54
“Where a registrar of the Land Registry found that a person who had been registered as the proprietor of land as adverse possessor had not in fact been in adverse possession of the land, he could exercise his power under paragraph 5(a) of Schedule 4 to the Land Registration Act 2002 to alter the register for the purpose of correcting a mistake, so as to restore the original proprietor.”
WLR Daily, 23rd February 2011
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Regina (Diep) v Chief Land Registrar [2010] WLR (D) 215
“The policy of the Land Registry in dealing with applications for registration of title to unregistered land based on adverse possession, as embodied in Land Registry Practice Guidance 5 at 6.4, was neither unlawful nor irrational.”
WLR Daily, 6th December 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A tiny Cornish community has won a partial victory in its fight against a leading public school.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Franks and another v Bedward and another; [2010] EWHC 1650 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 181
“Where an application for registration of title to land was ordered to be cancelled by the adjudicator, and the applicant subsequently succeeded in an appeal in circumstances where the order for cancellation was not protected by a stay, the court could direct the re-entry on the day list of the registration application with its original entry date.”
WLR Daily, 14th July 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Link Lending Ltd v Hussain and another [2010] EWCA Civ 424; [2010] WLR (D) 103
“A person, who had been taken into psychiatric care under s3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and had been involuntarily placed elsewhere, was still in actual occupation of her own home under the land registration legislation. Where therefore the owner, lacking legal capacity, had transferred the property to a swindler for no consideration and the swindler had secured a loan on the property from a lender which he had failed to repay, the lender as the registered chargee was not entitled to dispossess her on the ground that she was not in actual occupation of her home.”
WLR Daily, 26th April 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Baxter v Mannion [2010] EWHC 573 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 82
“There was no good reason to confine the jurisdiction of the registrar under para 5(a) of Sch 4 to the Land Registration Act 2002 to the correction of procedural mistakes. If any statutory condition which was a prerequisite for registration was shown not to have been satisfied, there was a mistake in the register which the registrar had power to correct.”
WLR Daily, 19th March 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Jayasinghe v Liyanage [2010] EWHC 265 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 44
“The adjudicator to the Land Registry had jurisdiction to conduct a trial of the question of beneficial entitlement to property where an objection to an application was made to the registrar and the matter referred to the adjudicator under s 73(7) of the Land Registration Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 18th February 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A major reform of property registration in England and Wales is needed to prevent ‘an exponential rise in fraud’, a building society boss has said.”
BBC News, 30th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“This consultation sought views on two statutory instruments covering the procedure for appeals to the office of the Adjudicator to Her Majesty’s Land Registry.”
Ministry of Justice, 20th August 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Land Registry is to remove online versions of scanned mortgage deeds and leases amid concerns that fraudsters have been accessing the documents.”
BBC News, 5th November 2007
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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