The Weekly Law Reports
[1968] 2 WLR 535
[COURT OF APPEAL]
WEST MIDLAND BAPTIST (TRUST) ASSOCIATION (INC.)
v.
BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION
1967 July 4.
5,
6,
10,
11;
Oct. 27
Oct. 27
SELLERS, SALMON and SACHS L.JJ.
Compulsory Purchase
— Compensation
— Equivalent reinstatement
— Relevant date for assessment of cost of reinstatement
— Baptist chapel
— Notice to treat in 1947
— Site not allocated for new chapel until 1958
— Commencement of work of reinstatement not possible until 1961
— Cost of reinstatement in 1961 far greater than cost in 1947
— Whether date of notice to treat or date of commencement of work relevant date
—
Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57)
s. 2,
r. 5
—
Land Compensation Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2, c. 33), s. 5, r. 5.
Lands Tribunal
— Precedent
— Practice of following own decisions
— Whether desirable.
Judicial Precedent
— Lands tribunal
— Whether previous decisions binding
— Compensation cases.