Category Archives: Property

Detrimental reliance and the dangers of emails: Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648

  The Court of Appeal’s decision in Hudson v Hathway [2022] EWCA Civ 1648  is arguably the most important decision on the subject of constructive trusts of the family home since the House of Lords decided Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17. The decision brings clarity to an area of law that is notoriously nebulous. As […]

It’s Not Your Vault: A curious case of Adverse Possession in King v The Benefice of Newburn In the Diocese of Newcastle

This article was first published in the Practical Law UK Property Litigation Column. According to the statistics held by HM Land Registry, some 15% of land in England and Wales is unregistered. In particular, much of the land owned by the Crown, the aristocracy and the Church has not been registered, because there has been no change in […]