Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council

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Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council

Hearings

England & Wales

09 Mar 2018 [2018] EWHC 455 (Ch), Ch D (Richard Spearman QC sitting as a High Court judge)

21 Feb 2019 [2019] EWCA Civ 200; [2019] Ch 435; [2019] 2 WLR 1397; [2019] WLR(D) 110, CA (Patten, Hamblen, Nicola Davies LJJ)

03 Dec 2019 (appn all) [2020] 1 WLR 776, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lady Black, Lord Briggs JJSC)

23 Apr 2021 [2021] UKSC 13; [2022] AC 129; [2021] 2 WLR 993; [2021] 3 All ER 807; [2021] WLR(D) 227, SC(E) (Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lady Arden, Lord Sales, Lord Burrows, Lord Stephens JJSC)

Subject Matter

TRUSTS — Resulting trust — School site — Grantor conveying land for use as site for school — School subsequently relocating to new site — Land lying vacant between relocation of school and sale — Whether original site being used “as a site for a school … or otherwise for the purposes of education” between relocation of school and sale — Whether grantor’s successors in title entitled to receive proceeds of sale — School Sites Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict c 38), ss 2, 14 — Reverter of Sites Act 1987 (c 15), s 1

[2019] EWCA Civ 200; [2019] Ch 435; [2019] 2 WLR 1397; [2019] WLR(D) 110, CA

[2021] UKSC 13; [2022] AC 129; [2021] 2 WLR 993; [2021] 3 All ER 807; [2021] WLR(D) 227, SC(E)

Appellate History

Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council [2018] EWHC 455 (Ch), Ch D

Decision of Richard Spearman QC sitting as a High Court judge reversed

Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council [2019] EWCA Civ 200; [2019] Ch 435; [2019] 2 WLR 1397; [2019] WLR(D) 110, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed

Rittson-Thomas v Oxfordshire County Council [2021] UKSC 13; [2022] AC 129; [2021] 2 WLR 993; [2021] 3 All ER 807; [2021] WLR(D) 227, SC(E)

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