Rights To Light: A trick of the light

What is and what is not a consent under s3 of the Prescription Act 1832 can be a tricky question to answer, as Andrew Francis finds out ‘Quite apart from whether the provision is a consent within s3, another commonly encountered issue is whether the provision can bind, or benefit, successors in title.’ Section 3 …
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Rights Of Light: Shining a light on interpretation

Emma Humphreys and Andrew Francis assess a case where the court was required to interpret consents given in a 1967 conveyance ‘The parties were agreed that a finding on the first issue (ie relating to the construction of the 1967 conveyance) in the defendant’s favour meant that the second issue would become irrelevant, but the …
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