We acted for a landowner whose neighbour installed a new fence encroaching several feet onto our client's property. The neighbour refused to restore the boundary to its original position so we issued court proceedings on behalf of our client seeking a declaration as to where the boundary line should be. Following a trial with expert evidence, the court ordered the neighbour to restore the boundary to its original position and to pay our client's costs.
We acted for a large landowner. An owner of neighbouring land had registered that neighbouring land with the Land Registry and had incorporated a large field which our client owned into his title! We applied for rectification of the Register at which point the neighbouring owner claimed adverse possession (i.e. said that they had been in occupation of the land, in this case, for some 70 years). We conducted a Land Registry adjudication which lasted several days at the conclusion of which the land was restored to our client and the neighbouring owner was ordered to pay our client's entire costs.
We acted for a client whose neighbour claimed a right of way over his property. The neighbour claimed that she had exercised the right of way for a sufficient number of years to establish a right to continue using the path for ever. Our client said that use of the path had always been with permission and that the permission could be withdrawn. On investigation, the evidence showed that the use of the path was indeed by permission and, following the threat of proceedings, the neighbour withdrew her claim to a right of way.