Howe & anr v Gossop & anr [2021] WTLR 539

Summer 2021 #183

In 2011 the appellants sold a building to the respondents for use as a dwelling-house. In 2012, the respondents proposed that the appellants transfer the Green Land and Grey Land in return for the waiver of a debt. The respondents prepared the Green Land for use as a garden until relations broke down and the appellants sued for possession of the Green Land and the Grey Land. At first instance the judge found that the parties had made an oral agreement in 2012, and that although the provisions of s2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989 has not been ...