R (Horner) v Lancashire County Council and Castle Cement Ltd

Environmental Impact Assessment Directive – Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999 – Waste Framework Directive – Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 – Whether Environmental Impact Assessment required in every case – Whether failure by local authority to consider Best Practice Environmental Option fatal to planning consent

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, ss.137, 139 & 143 – Purchase notice – Whether notices may be amended – Whether more than one current notice permissible – Deemed confirmation – Whether possible if s.139(4) not complied with

Partnership – Whether and in what circumstances agreement may be inferred from conduct – Whether partnership may arise as the result of estoppel

Assured shorthold tenancy – Mistake – Frustration – Implied term of contract – Occupation rent and mesne profits

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive – Landfill Directive – Groundwater Regulations 1998 – Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000 – Landfill Regulations 2002 – Whether lawful to permit ‘piggybacking’ – Whether to permit a new landfill adjacent to a closed cell is to permit discharges from that cell and thus unlawful
On appeal from HC [2007] EWHC 717 (Admin)

Right of way – Grant ancillary to conveyance – Grant by implication

Assured tenancy – Housing Act 1988, s.19A & sch.2A – Resident landlord exception – Whether notice sufficient to create shorthold tenancy if endorsed on rent book

Limitation Act 1980, Ss.15, 17, 29 & 30 – Adverse possession – Acknowledgement of title – Conditions required of an acknowledgement

Easement of necessity – Requirements of implication – Difference of approach between a grantor’s and a grantee’s claim for easement