Wills – Mental Capacity Act 2005 – Testamentary capacity at common law – Lack of knowledge and approval on part of testator – Undue influence
Scammell v Farmer
R (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Animal welfare – Ventilation shutdown – Council Directive 93/119 – Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 – Incompatibility – Proportionality – Legal certainty
R (Partridge Farms Ltd) v Secretary of State for Environment and Rural Affairs
EC Directives 77/391 and 78/52 – Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2006 – Differential treatment of different groups of potential claimants – Need for objective justification – Principles of equality and proportionality
See also CA [2009] EWCA Civ 284
Murrell and anor v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and anor
Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 1995 – Erection of agricultural building – Prior approval of related matters – Requirements of valid application for determination – Approach of decision-maker in assessing need for prior approval
Oates v Hooper
Law Society’s Conditions of Sale – Service of notice to complete – Premature service of rescission notice – Whether a repudiatory breach of contract
Oun v Ahmad
Land Registration – Unilateral notice – Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, s.2 – Contract not containing all agreed terms – Power of court to rectify a defective contract
Parker v Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Town and Country Planning – Interpretation of Policy – Inspector failing to give reasons for conclusions
Mason v Boscawen
Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 – Value Added Tax Act 1994 – Notice to Pay – Whether VAT forms part of ‘rent’ for purposes of 1986 Act, sch.3, Pt.I, Case D – Effect of landlord’s election to tax and of changes of VAT rate on cycle of rent review under 1986 Act, s.12 and sch.2
R (Lewis) v Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council
Commons Act 2006, s.15 – Town and village green – Effect of notices posted by landowner – Co-existence and deference as between landowner and recreational users
See also CA [2009] EWCA Civ 3
Pennock v Hodgson
Boundary dispute – Assessment of prior documentation – Effect of subjective belief of parties