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Pointe Gourde principle end of the road

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Rating and Valuation Reporter ; 51(3) [2011] RVR, 66-71(6) Publication details: 2011Subject(s): Summary: HL in Spirerose Ltd (in administration) v Transport for London (2009) (see E148160) ended Pointe Gourde as a supposedly independent doctrine of law. Goes back to the origin of the principle in the Pointe Gourde Privy Council decision ([1947] AC 656), asks what was thought to have been established by the principle and looks at how it was adapted into statutory form. Concludes that the value to the owner rule or an aspect of it which might be disguised as Pointe Gourde is now wholely contained in the relevant statutory provisions Pointe Gourde's only function today is to assist where there is a disputed construction of the statutory provisions.
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HL in Spirerose Ltd (in administration) v Transport for London (2009) (see E148160) ended Pointe Gourde as a supposedly independent doctrine of law. Goes back to the origin of the principle in the Pointe Gourde Privy Council decision ([1947] AC 656), asks what was thought to have been established by the principle and looks at how it was adapted into statutory form. Concludes that the value to the owner rule or an aspect of it which might be disguised as Pointe Gourde is now wholely contained in the relevant statutory provisions Pointe Gourde's only function today is to assist where there is a disputed construction of the statutory provisions.