[2023] UKUT 200 (LC)

Royal Courts of Justice

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL

(PROPERTY CHAMBER)

LAND REGISTRATION – first registration – construction of conveyance – direct conflict between clear words in the conveyance and a clear plan on which land is “more particularly delineated” – admissibility of extrinsic evidence – whether extrinsic evidence can displace the general rule that such a plan, if clear, will prevail over the words of the conveyance

BETWEEN

ANDREW RIDDELL DUNLOP

Appellant

-and-

ROSTISLAV ROSTISLAVAVITCH ROMANOFF

Respondent

Re: Land lying to the North of Chick Hill,

Pett, Hastings,

East Sussex,

TN35 4EQ

Judge Elizabeth Cooke

27 June 2023

Decision Date: 29 August 2023

Mr Matthew Mills for the appellant, instructed by Attwells Solicitors LLP

Mr Christopher Maynard for the respondent, instructed by Whitehead Monckton

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The following cases are referred to in the decision:

Ali v Lane [2006] EWCA Civ 1532

Chartbrook Limited v Persimmon Homes Limited [2009] UKHL 38

Clarke v O’Keefe (1997) 80 P & CR 126

East v Pantiles (Plant Hire) Limited [1982] 2 EGLR 111

Eastwood v Ashton [1915] AC 900

Harvest Rise Development Limited v Ling Yau Yung [2002] HKCFI 467

Investors Compensation Scheme Limited v West Bromwich Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896

Lintock Company Limited v AG [1985] HKCFI 310

Lovering v Atkinson [2020] UKPC 14

Network Rail Infrastructure Limited v Freemont Limited [2013] EWHC 1733 (Ch)

Nielson v Poole (1969) 20 P & CR 909

Pennock v Hodgson [2010] EWCA Civ 873

Secretary of Justice v Wing Lung Wai Community [1999] HKCA 394

Wesleyvale Limited v Harding Homes (East Anglia) Limited [2003] EWHC 2291 (Ch)

Wood v Capita Insurance Services Limited [2017] UKSC 24

Forbes v Git [1922] 1 AC 256