Skelwith (Leisure) Ltd v Armstrong

Subject Matter

LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Charged property — Person “entitled to be registered as the proprietor” of legal charge — Whether entitled to exercise “owner’s powers” — Whether entitled to exercise power of sale — Land Registration Act 2002, ss 23(2), 24(b)

[2015] EWHC 2830 (Ch); [2016] Ch 345; [2016] 2 WLR 144; [2015] WLR (D) 415, Ch D

MORTGAGE — Sale by mortgagee — Statutory power — Mortgage debt assigned in equity if not in law — Whether assignee able to exercise mortgagee’s power of sale as person “entitled to receive and give a discharge for the mortgage money” — Law of Property Act 1925, ss 101, 106

[2015] EWHC 2830 (Ch); [2016] Ch 345; [2016] 2 WLR 144; [2015] WLR (D) 415, Ch D