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Evans v Wimbledon & Putney Commons Conservators [2014] EWCA Civ 940
Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act 1871, ss.34 et seq. – Whether decision to permit works to modify access over the Commons ultra vires – Interpretation of powers of Conservators
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Snelling & Merison v Burstow Parish Council [2013] EWHC 46 (Ch)
Allotments – Sale of allotment land – Relevant regime – Commons Act 1876, s.27 – Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1908, ss.25ff – Requirement for Secretary of State’s consent – Whether validly obtained
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Leeds Group plc v Leeds City Council [2011] EWCA Civ 1447
Town or village green – Locality – Neighbourhood within a locality – Whether the existence of more than one ‘neighbourhood’ is fatal to registration – Quality of user giving rise to right to registration
On appeal from HC [2010] EWHC 810 (Ch)
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Naylor v Essex County Council [2014] EWHC 2560 (Admin)
Town or village green – Refusal of registration – Use ‘as of right’ or ‘by right’ – Effect of a period of interruption of user
HC [2014] EWHC 2560 (Admin) -
Evans v Wimbledon & Putney Commons Conservators [2013] EWHC 3411 (Admin)
Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act 1871 – Proposed grant of easements over areas of Common – Whether within the scope of powers and duties of Conservators – Need for flexible interpretation of powers and duties
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Norbrook Laboratories Ltd and ors v Carlisle City Council [2013] EWHC 1113 (Admin)
Public rights of access under statutory Scheme – Whether rights of common – Commons Registration Act 1965 – Rights of common lapsed for want of registration – Tree Preservation Order – Whether grounds expressed resulted from erroneous construction of rights
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R (Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and anor) v Oxfordshire CC and ors [2010] EWHC 530 (Admin)
Commons Registration Act 1965, s.22 – Town or village green – Effect of notices negating public rights of way – Predominance Test: effect of user of the relevant land as to less than half by inhabitants of neighbourhood
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Leeds Group Plc v Leeds City Council [2010] EWHC 810 (Ch)
Town or village green – Locality – Neighbourhood within a locality – Whether the existence of more than one ‘neighbourhood’ is fatal to registration
Appealed to CA [2010] EWCA Civ 1438
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Adamson and ors v Paddico 267 Ltd/Taylor v Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd [2014] UKSC 7
Town or village green – Commons Act 1965, s.14: rectification of register – Effect of lapse of time between registration and application to rectify
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R (Barkas) v North Yorkshire CC and anor [2014] UKSC 31
Commons Act 2006, s.15 – Town or village green – Whether land appropriated under statutory power for public recreation was used ‘by right’ or ‘as of right’ – R (Beresford) v Sunderland City Council (2004) no longer to be relied upon
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Adamson & Ord v Paddico (267) Ltd [2014] UKSC 7
Commons Registration Act 1965 – Town and village greens – Ibid,. s.14: application to rectify register – Original registration wrongly confirmed – Whether rectification would be just
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R (Lewis) v Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council [2010] UKSC 11
Commons Act 2006, s.15 – Town and village green – Co-existence and deference as between landowner and recreational users
On appeal from CA [2009] EWCA Civ 3
