The Weekly Law Reports
[2015] 3 WLR 1505
Court of Appeal
Regina (Best)
v
Chief Land Registrar
[2014] EWHC 1370 (Admin)
[2015] EWCA Civ 17
2014 Feb 18,
19;
May 7
Ouseley J
2014 Nov 19,
20;
2015 Jan 21
Arden, McCombe, Sales LJJ
Land registration— Registration— Adverse possession— Trespasser applying to be registered as proprietor of premises on basis of ten years’ adverse possession— Occupation of premises becoming criminal offence during period of possession relied on— Whether trespasser entitled to rely on criminal trespass to found claim to adverse possession—
Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), s 97, Sch 6, para 1
—
Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c 10), s 144