Archive for December 2007
“Reasonable to Occupy” – Nipa Begum revisited
In Waltham Forest v Maloba [2007] EWCA Civ 1281, the Court of Appeal has revisited the issue of ‘reasonable to occupy’ in terms of the homelessness provisions of Housing Act 1996.
Briefly, the facts were that Mr M had lived in the UK since 1989 and acquired British Citizenship in 1997. On a visit to his [...]
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Powell & Anor v Benney [2007] EWCA Civ 1283 (05 December 2007)
The Appellants had looked after the Respondent’s cousin and improved his properties for their own use. The Respondent’s cousin had promised the properties to the Appellants upon his death however when he died the will was invalid. The Court held that there was not a strong enough causal link between the promise and the work carried out. There was therefore no reliance on the promise in order to create a proprietary estoppel.
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