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Property disputes update: adverse possession estoppel, telecoms Code v LTA 1954, deposit: failure of consideration, UKSC on sewage nuisance, RICS BSA FAQs, LFR Act 2024 (England and Wales)

Published on: 04 July 2024

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Trespass and adverse possession

Adverse possession and estoppel under paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 6 to the Land Registration Act 2002 (El Massouri v Omani Estates Ltd)

In El Massouri v Omani Estates Ltd [2024] All ER (D) 72 (Mar), [2024] EWHC 534 (Ch), the claimant obtained planning consent and extended her top-floor flat into the loft above. That loft space had been demised to the defendant’s predecessor in title, with the lease granted without section 5 Landlord & Tenant Act 1987 notice and without the claimant’s knowledge. The court determined that the freehold lessor, the grantee of the defendant’s lease and the defendant were unlikely to act independently of one another. As a result, notifying the freehold lessor of the planning application for the loft extension was sufficient to place the lease grantee under a duty to speak...

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