The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1970] AC 874
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION APPELLANTS AND WEST MIDLAND BAPTIST (TRUST) ASSOCIATION (INC.) RESPONDENTS
[ON APPEAL PROM WEST MIDLAND BAPTIST (TRUST) ASSOCIATION (INC.) v. BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION.]
1969 May 12,
13,
14,
15,
19,
20,
21;
July 16
July 16
Lord Reid, Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest, Lord Upjohn, Lord Donovan and Lord Wilberforce
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
— “Basis of the reasonable cost of equivalent reinstatement”
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Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57), s. 2, r. 5
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Land Compensation Act, 1961 (9 do 10 Eliz. 2, c. 33), s. 5, r. 5.