Wycombe District Council v Wells

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, S.179 – Defence to non-compliance with enforcement notice – Extent to which personal circumstances of respondent may be taken into account

Notice to do work – Notice of quit – Whether two dispute resolution clauses available concurrently – Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, ss.25-28

Agricultural holdings – Status of land incorporated into existing tenancy – Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, S.2 – Rent review memorandum creating new tenancy – Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, S.4(1)(f)

Public rights of way – Definitive map and statement – Reclassification as bridleway or “road used as a public path” – Whether effect is to extinguish pre-existing vehicular rights so as to prevent further reclassification as a “byway open to all traffic”

Council Regulation 2081/92 – Protected Designation of Origin – Protected Geographical Indication – Need for Member States to be satisfied on application before forwarding to Commission – Whether operative area of registration may be different from specific place to which product is related

Right of way “for all purposes in connection with the present and any future agricultural use” – Interpretation – Defintion of ‘agriculture’

Insolvency Act 1986, S.313 – Charging order – Limitation Act 1980, S.20 – Prohibition on enforcement after 12 years – When did the right to receive money under the charge accrue to the chargee?

Environmental impact assessment – ‘Screening’ decision – Bringing abandoned land back into production – Meaning of “intensive agricultural purposes”

Adverse possession – Licence to occupy – State of knowledge of subsequent occupier

Adverse possession – Interaction with European Convention on Human Rights, First Protocol, Art.1 – Expropriation of property without compensation – Human Rights Act 1998, S.3