[2025] UKUT 136 (LC)

Case Nos: LC-2024-769

LC-2024-692

ON APPEAL FROM THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT Ref: LC-2024-000071

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

London, WC2A 2LL

30 April 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS CODE – CONSIDERATION – INTERIM CODE RIGHTS – application for permission to adduce expert evidence in claim for interim rights to permit an “MSV” survey – application refused – whether refusal a proper exercise of case management power – whether refusal of application made decision to award nominal consideration unjust – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

COVENT GARDEN IP LIMITED

Applicant

-and-

CORNERSTONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Respondent

Alder Castle,

10 Noble Street,

London EC2

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

10 April 2025

David Holland KC, instructed by Concorde Solicitors, for the appellant

Oliver Radley-Gardner KC and James Tipler, instructed by Osborne Clarke LLP, for the respondent

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