Real property; registration; adverse possession; boundaries; title plans (Clapham v Narga)
Property Disputes analysis: The Court of Appeal allowed a second appeal in a long-running boundary dispute over the bank of a stream in Leicestershire. The three separate judgments affirm that, in a boundary dispute, an HM Land Registry title plan is ordinarily irrelevant to the location of a boundary. The effect of the ‘general boundaries’ rule is that the line of a boundary falls to be located by looking underneath the title plan. The Court of Appeal also held that section 75 of the Land Registration Act 1925 (LRA 1925) operates only where the limitation period expired after first registration. Written by Tom Morris, barrister at Landmark Chambers.