West Midland Baptist (Trust) Association (Inc) v Birmingham Corpn

Subject Matter

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 … reasonable cost of equivalent reinstatement” — Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, s 2, r 5 — Land Compensation Act, 1961, s 5, r 5

[1968] 2 QB 188; [1970] AC 874; [1968] 2 WLR 535; [1969] 3 WLR 389

JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Lands tribunal — Whether previous decisions binding — Compensation cases

[1968] 2 QB 188; [1968] 2 WLR 535

LANDS TRIBUNAL — Precedent — Practice of following own decisions — Whether desirable

[1968] 2 QB 188; [1968] 2 WLR 535

Appellate History