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NLJ this week: Quarterly review of landmark property cases

18 April 2025
Issue: 8113 / Categories: Legal News , Property , Landlord&tenant , Housing
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Recent caselaw in property come under the careful scrutiny of Fern Schofield and Gwyneth Everson, Falcon Chambers, in this week’s NLJ, in a new series of quarterly reviews.

Schofield and Everson cover landmark cases from December 2024, including the Supreme Court’s important clarification that the doctrine of merger does not apply to declaratory judgments and a separate case on the timeframe for adverse possession.

Other caselaw covers a range of topics from service of documents, in a decision ‘likely to become a go-to authority in first instance possession claims’, to the meaning of ‘building’. 

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