Loose v Lynn Shellfish Ltd (Le Strange Meakin, Part 20 defendant)

Subject Matter

FISHERY — Several fishery — Foreshore — Presumed grant from Crown of private right to take shellfish from foreshore — Dispute between lessee of private fishery and members of public as to seaward extent of private fishery — Extent of foreshore changing over time as result of shifting sands — Whether doctrine of accretion relevant — Whether private fishery extending to foreshore as it existed from time to time — Whether extending to all parts of seabed from time to time exposed at low water — Whether seaward boundary lowest astronomical tide

[2014] EWCA Civ 846; [2015] Ch 547; [2015] 2 WLR 643; [2014] WLR (D) 280, CA

FISHERY — Several fishery — Foreshore — Presumed grant from Crown of private right to take shellfish from foreshore — Dispute as to seaward extent of private fishery — Extent of foreshore changing over time as result of shifting sands — Whether doctrine of accretion relevant — Whether private fishery extending to foreshore as it existed so as to include former sandbanks — Whether extending to all parts of seabed from time to time exposed at low water — Whether seaward boundary lowest astronomical tide

[2016] UKSC 14; [2017] AC 599; [2016] 2 WLR 1126; [2017] 1 All ER 677; [2016] WLR (D) 181; Case details, SC(E)

FISHERY — Prescriptive private right to take shellfish from foreshore — Whether including foreshore as it existed from time to time up to lowest astronomical tide and former sandbanks

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