{"id":6580,"date":"2014-02-11T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=6580"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:16:07","slug":"hatton-v-connew-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=6580","title":{"rendered":"Hatton V Connew (2013) &#8211; Establishing Boundary Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a complicated boundary dispute involving three distinct areas of Land, with arguments over extent of paper title, interpretation of documents, estoppel and expert evidence.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a fundamental evidence question that is herein addressed, which affects all such land law and other cases where evidence must be considered fairly and openly.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/ew\/cases\/EWCA\/Civ\/2013\/1560.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hatton\u00c2\u00a0&amp; Anor\u00c2\u00a0v Connew\u00c2\u00a0&amp; Anor [2013]<\/a> EWCA Civ 1560 (10 December2013)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>Following a complicated legal case with adverse possession and boundary issues, a Circuit Judge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s discretion in respect of expert evidence together with his determination of the boundaries put one party at an unfair advantage.\u00c2\u00a0 The claimant was represented by an expert and the defendants represented themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00c2\u00a0Circuit Judge visited the site in order to have a clearer understanding of the site and the issues involved and, whilst at the site, spoke to the Claimant&#8217;s expert and discussed the issues.<\/p>\n<p>No proper record of the conversation was taken and the Circuit Judge consequently ruled,\u00c2\u00a0without discussion with the parties, that no evidence was required to be heard in court. As a consequence, no cross-examination of the expert was possible and the Judge found in\u00c2\u00a0favour of the claimant.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant appealed to the Court of Appeal who overturned the decision, holding that\u00c2\u00a0there was a serious procedural irregularity in the way the judge had conducted the trial. Two serious procedural irregularities were identified.<\/p>\n<p>This case affects the operating of a fair hearing in not only Land Law, but in most other areas of the law.<\/p>\n<p>LCB \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a010.2.14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a complicated boundary dispute involving three distinct areas of Land, with arguments over extent of paper title, interpretation of documents, estoppel and expert evidence.\u00c2\u00a0 There is a fundamental evidence question that is herein addressed, which affects all such land law and other cases where evidence must be considered fairly and openly. 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