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Briefcase 2025 Quarter 1: Key Real Estate Cases and Updates
Mar 25, 2025
Case 1: Handston Investments Limited v Abri Group Limited
The court refused to grant an interim injunction to pause construction that would significantly interfere with a neighbour’s rights to light. Instead, the Court ordered an expedited trial.
Case 2: Beeches Capital v Hunt & Ors
The Upper Tribunal granted the modification of a restrictive covenant, which prevented the erection of non-agricultural buildings, to allow a rural business and enterprise hub to be built.
Case 3: Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak v William Woodward-Fisher
A sale contract of a high-value residential property in London was reversed because the seller had given false replies about the extent of a moth infestation.
Case 4: Khan v D’Aubigny
Documents that the landlord was required by statute to serve on the tenant before serving a section 21 notice were deemed served under the notice provisions of the AST.
Case 5: Stiaan van Zyl and Tersia van Zyl v Peter James Walker-Smith
A couple who removed a shared hedge and replaced it with a fence, without their neighbour’s agreement, are found to have committed trespass, and are ordered to pay damages and costs.
Related Practice Areas
Real Estate Disputes
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