Jaques v Secretary of State for the Environment

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Date1995
Year1995

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16 cases
  • Walsh v Sligo County Council
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 20 December 2010
    ...537; [1972] 1 All E.R. 749. Hue v. Whiteley [1929] 1 Ch. 440; [1928] All E.R. 308. Jaques v. Secretary of State for the Environment[1995] J.P.L. 1031; [1994] N.C. 79. Jones v. Bates [1938] 2 All E.R. 237; (1938) L.G.R. 227. The King (Hewson) v. Wicklow County Council [1908] 2 I.R. 101. The ......
  • Easteye Ltd v Malhotra Property Investments Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 1 June 2020
    ...as to the significance of its omission in the 1959 and 1980 Highways Acts. 317 In Jaques v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] JPL 1031 at 1039 Laws J held that the proviso only applied if there was no-one in possession capable of dedicating, which was the position in Jaques as th......
  • R (Godmanchester Town Council) v Environment Secretary; R (Drain) v Environment Secretary
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 December 2005
    ...to say that evidence of intention had always to be in the form of overt acts". 25 In Jaques v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] JPL 1031, Laws J, as he then was, upheld the landowner's appeal concerning the section 31(1) proviso, in which the Inspector had found that he had, by ......
  • R (Godmanchester Town Council) v Environment Secretary; R (Drain) v Environment Secretary
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 June 2007
    ...of the public right an artificial onus which was often fatal to his success." In Jaques v Secretary of State for the Environment [1995] JPL 1031, 1037 Laws J called it an "Alice in Wonderland 7 Nevertheless, juries and other tribunals of fact did frequently find that such acts of dedication......
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