[2024] UKUT 217 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-698

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT REF: 2022/0137

Royal Courts of Justice,

London WC2A

29 July 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LAND REGISTRATION – EASEMENTS – whether right of way acquired by prescription over private road – sign warning of no public right of way – whether sufficient to make use of way by neighbours contentious – period of interruption – ss.2, 4, Prescription Act 1832 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

MR MOHAMMED SAGIER

Appellant

-and-

MRS HARBANS KAUR

Respondent

60 Victoria Park Road,

Smethwick,

Birmingham B66

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

14 May 2024

Mr Michael Buckpitt and Mr Paul Wilmshurst, instructed directly, for the appellant

Ms Anya Newman, instructed by Mezzle Solicitors, for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Dalton v. Angus & Co. (1881) 6 App.Cas. 740

Newnham v Willison (1987) 56 P&CR 8, 18

Nicholson v Hale [2024] UKUT 153 (LC)

R. (Lewis v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (No. 2) [2010] 2 AC 70

R. v Oxfordshire County Council ex p Sunningwell Parish Council [2000] 1 AC 335

Reilly v Orange [1955] 2 QB 112

Taylor v Betterment Properties (Weymouth) Ltd & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 250; [2012] 2 P & CR 3

Welford v Graham [2017] UKUT 297 (TCC)

Winterburn v Bennett [2016] EWCA Civ 482, [2017] 1 WLR 646