[2025] UKUT 294 (LC)

Case No: LC-2025-26

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

Ref: 2023/0430

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

29 August 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LAND REGISTRATION - Easement and profits – charities - prescription – competent grantor –s.29 (3)(a) Charities Act 1960 - date of presumed grant

BETWEEN:

THE KINGDOM HALL TRUST

Appellant

-and-

PETER ROBERT DAVIES

Respondent

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses,

Plough Road,

Wrockwardine Wood,

Telford,

TF2 7AW

His Honour Judge Neil Cadwallader

29 July 2025

James Tipler, counsel for the appellant

Duncan Kynoch, counsel for the respondent

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The following cases were referred to in this decision:

Bakewell Management Ltd v Brandwood [2004] UKHL 14

Barker v Richardson (1821) 106 ER 1048

Dalton v Angus & Co (1881) 6 App.Cas. 740; (1878) 4 QBD 162

Daniel v North (1809) 11 East 372

Housden v Conservators of Wimbledon and Putney Commons [2008] EWCA Civ 200

Housden v. Wimbledon and Putney Commons Conservators [2008] 1 WLR 1172 (CA)

Neaverson v Peterborough RDC [1902] 1 Ch. 557

Oakley v Boston [1976] QB 270

Oxfordshire County Council ex p Sunningwell [2000] AC 335

Palmer v Guadagni [1906] 2 Ch 494

R (Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd) v East Sussex CC [2025] UKSC 7

Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Navigation (Proprietors of) v Proprietors of Birmingham Canal Navigations (1866) LR1 HL 254

Tehidy Minerals Ltd v Norman [1971] 2 QB 528

The Rochdale Canal Company v Radcliffe (1852) 18 QB 287

Tremayne v English Clays Lovering Pochin [1972] 1WLR 657