Vodafone Ltd v Hanover Capital Ltd
Borwick Development Solutions Ltd v Clear Water Fisheries Ltd
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS – nature and extent of proprietary rights in relation to fish – distinction between wild animals and domestic animals
ARC Aggregates Ltd v Branston Properties Ltd
MINES & MINERALS – Section 1, Law of Property Act 1925 – Whether the claimant retains a corporeal right to mines, minerals and mineral substances lying beneath the surface of property owned by the defendant, or whether it retains merely an incorporeal right to the mines and minerals.
EE Ltd & Hutchinson 3G UK Ltd v Robert Cooper & Colin Shires
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE – CODE RIGHTS – terms of agreement – consequences of failure to engage in the travelling draft procedure
Landlinx Estates Ltd v HMRC
VALUE ADDED TAX – release of an option to acquire land – whether an exempt or taxable supply – Group 1 Schedule 9 Value Added Tax Act 1994 – Articles 14 and 135 (1) VAT Directive 2006
Arqiva Services Ltd v AP Wireless II (UK) Ltd
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE – TEMPORARY CODE RIGHTS – transitional provisions – tenancy at will or periodic tenancy after the expiry of a fixed term lease – scope of paragraph 20 of the Code – operator on site without Code rights – relationship between paragraphs 20 and 27 of the Code
Rees v Earl of Plymouth
Whether the landlords’ rights of entry under tenancy agreements were wide enough to permit them to carry out the activities that they wish to undertake
Barnwell Farms Limited – Judicial Review of Appeal Panel Decision
BASIC PAYMENT SCHEME – eligibility tests – interpretation of ‘active farmer’ and ‘land at disposal’ – case upheld by appeal panel – DAERA rejection of appeal panel recommendation
William Charnley & Maxwell Hodgkinson (Exors of the late Thomas Gill) v HMRC
INHERITANCE TAX – Agricultural property relief – Business property relief – whether dwelling was a farmhouse – nexus between farmhouse and land – agricultural purposes – whether business wholly or mainly consisted of holding investments – appeal allowed
John Sawkill v Highways England Company Limited
DEVELOPMENT CONSENT ORDER – Section 53 Planning Act 2008 – Section 172 Housing and Planning Act 2016 – – power to enter onto land to undertake tests – discharge of pumped groundwater onto land – whether or not it is a permissible activity covered by the power to undertake surveys in any event