Please see below for a selective summary of newsletters from February 2010 to Januaru 2020. These give a useful idea of some of the areas in which we are able to offer help and advice to members.
| February 2010 | Powers to stop up highways; i.e. to end public rights of way. |
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| May 2010 | Application of corporation tax to residents associations — “Ticketing” firms: display of notices. |
| September 2010 | Ban on private wheelclamping — Enquries from house purchasers — Street lighting — Networking |
| March 2011 | Litigation: the dangers of DIY — Using solicitors and counsel: going direct to a barrister. |
| August 2011 | Adoption of sewers — Planning and rights of way |
| February 2012 | Dealing with snow and ice — CCTV and automatic number plate recognition — Pot-hole repairs by Velocity Patching [based in the north of the country and still in business] |
| July 2012 | Estate rentcharges — the Fortune case and proof of an ancient highway |
| February 2013 | Whether the presence or absence of rights of way are material planning considerations — “Stranded” culs-de-sac: those (usually recent) which are subject to a public right of way but which are not accessible by means of a public right of way. |
| August 2013 | The case of Cusack v London Borough of Harrow [2013] UKSC 40 — human rights and the exercise of powers under the Highways Act 1980 — Chancel repairs and potential liability: the Aston Cantlow case, 2003 [UKHL] 37 — Proprietary estoppel and Joyce v Epsom and Ewell BC [2012] EWCA 1398. |
| May 2014 | Village greens and their use to prevent development — Injunctions and a new approach by the Supreme Court in Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13. |
| December 2014 | Proof that a road is a highway: Finance Act 1911 records as evidence,. |
| Marsh 2016 | The Parking Eye case and “ticketing” operations — The hedge and ditch presumption revisited by the Court of Appeal in Parmar v Upton [2015] EWCA Civ 795 — Bona vacantia: defunct companies being brought back to life under s. 1012 of the Companies Act 2006. |
| February 2018 | The General Data Protection Regulation: introduction and implications |
| March 2019 | The VNUK case on off-road vehicles — Recreational use of land as an easement: Regency Villas Title Lt.d v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd [2018] UKSC 57— Japanese knotweed and its effect on property values: Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v Williams [2018] EWCA 1514 |
| October 2019 | Transfer of the private roads insurance scheme to Edwards Insurance Brokers — Bona vacantia: disclaimers by the Government Legal Department now automatic — Obligations to fence land: their legal nature — Churston Golf Club Ltd v Haddock [2019] EWCA Civ 544. |
| January 2020 | Run-off from rainwater: liability — Scope of rights of way considered in Vance v Collerton [2019] EWCA 2866 — Parking and obstruction of rights of way. |
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