The Weekly Law Reports
[2004] 3 WLR 1342
Court of Appeal
Regina (Whitmey)
v
Commons Commissioners
[2004] EWCA Civ 951
2004 March 30,
31;
July 21
July 21
Waller and Arden LJJ and Pumfrey J
Commons
— Town or village green
— Registration
— Objection by landowner
— Whether commons commissioners having jurisdiction to determine dispute
— Whether to be determined by registration authority
— Whether reference to non-statutory inquiry infringing landowner's right of access to independent court or tribunal
— Whether infringing landowner's right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions
—
Commons Registration Act 1965 (c 64) (as amended by Rights of Way Act 2000 (c 37), s. 98(1)), ss. 5(6)(7), 13, 14(b), 22(1)(1A)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, art 6, Pt II, art 1