The Weekly Law Reports
[2019] 2 WLR 1310
Court of Appeal
Nasrullah
v
Rashid
[2018] EWCA Civ 2685
2018 Nov 20;
29
Lewison, King, Peter Jackson LJJ
Limitation of action— Land, recovery of— Possessory title— Registered proprietor deprived of title by forged transfer— New registered proprietor complicit in fraud and occupying property— Original proprietor applying to rectify register 24 years later— Whether new registered proprietor having adverse possession claim— Whether registered proprietor precluded from relying on own fraud— Whether exceptional circumstances justifying not altering register—
Land Registration Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 21), ss 20(4), 69, 75
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Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), Sch 4, paras 2, 3(3), Sch 12, para 18
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Limitation Act 1980 (c 58) (as amended by Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (c 47)), s 25(2), Sch 4), ss 15, 18, Sch 1, para 1