A dispute over a £5000 drop in property value has gone all the way to the Supreme Court which, today, confirmed that you cannot recover damages for encroachment of Japanese knotweed on your land if this occurred before the...more
In Wolverhampton City Council and others v London Gypsies and Travellers and others, the Supreme Court has confirmed that injunctions can be imposed to prevent “newcomers” from occupying land unlawfully. That means that...more
In its recent decision in Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Co Limited and another, the UK Supreme Court confirmed that a one-off oil spill was not a “continuing nuisance”....more
In their recent Judgment in R (on the application of Day) v Shropshire, the UK Supreme Court decided that public rights over local authority land – which was later discovered to be a public park - survived a sale to a...more
In their judgment this week in the case of Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Limited v Williams, the Supreme Court has curtailed the First Tier Tribunal’s jurisdiction to intervene in residential service charges. The reduction...more
The Supreme Court has given its judgment in Fearn and others v Tate, and has widened the law on private nuisance to include being “overlooked” for the first time....more
The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Limited v Blacks Limited, a service charge dispute which has been going through the Courts for over 3 years....more