Brown v Ridley and Another [2025] UKSC 7
Brown v Ridley and Another [2025] UKSC 7
- The Supreme Court, 26 February 2025
Supreme Court judgment 26 February 2025. Allowed the appeal from the Upper Tribunal [2024] UKUT 14 (LC). Issue: What is the period of ten years in which an applicant for registration as the owner of land over on the basis of adverse possession must hold the reasonable belief that they were the owner of that land under paragraph 5(4)(c) of Schedule 6 of the Land Registration Act 2002?
An adverse possession claim based on the squatter's reasonable mistake as to boundaries under the Land Registration Act 2002, the requirement for ten years of reasonable belief of ownership could be any period of ten years; it did not have to be the ten years ending on the date of the application. Justices: Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose, Lady Simler Judgment appealed [2024] UKUT 14 (LC)
BROWN v RIDLEY
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
LAND REGISTRATION ACT 2002
SQUATTER'S RIGHTS
ADVERSE POSSESSION
United Kingdom
Supreme Court judgment 26 February 2025. Allowed the appeal from the Upper Tribunal [2024] UKUT 14 (LC). Issue: What is the period of ten years in which an applicant for registration as the owner of land over on the basis of adverse possession must hold the reasonable belief that they were the owner of that land under paragraph 5(4)(c) of Schedule 6 of the Land Registration Act 2002?
An adverse possession claim based on the squatter's reasonable mistake as to boundaries under the Land Registration Act 2002, the requirement for ten years of reasonable belief of ownership could be any period of ten years; it did not have to be the ten years ending on the date of the application. Justices: Lord Briggs, Lord Hamblen, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose, Lady Simler Judgment appealed [2024] UKUT 14 (LC)
BROWN v RIDLEY
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
LAND REGISTRATION ACT 2002
SQUATTER'S RIGHTS
ADVERSE POSSESSION
United Kingdom