Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar

Subject Matter

LAND REGISTRATION — Register — Rectification — Fraudster executing legal charge to secure loan by impersonating proprietor — Registered proprietor and rightful owner of property in actual occupation at date of forged disposition — Parties agreeing consent order requiring registrar to amend registered title to property by deleting charge in favour of claimant — Claimant seeking indemnity because prejudiced by rectification and suffering loss — Whether alteration of register amounting to rectification — Whether claimant claiming in good faith under forged disposition and suffering loss by reason of rectification as if disposition not forged — Whether claim for indemnity affected by registered proprietor’s overriding interest — Whether claimant entitled to indemnity — Land Registration Act 2002, Schs 4, 8

[2015] EWCA Civ 330; [2015] Ch 602; [2015] 3 WLR 239; [2015] WLR (D) 167, CA

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