The Law of Compulsory Purchase - Hardcover

Roots KC, Guy; Pereira KC, James; KC KC, Michael Humphries; Fookes, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847667465 ISBN 13: 9781847667465

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional, 2011

Synopsis

Being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation can appear daunting. This authoritative book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the law. The Law of Compulsory Purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchase. It provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further information. Written in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circulars. It also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensation. Find the answers you need quickly and easily. The practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to find. It both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areas. This book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it arises.

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About the Authors

Guy Roots KC is a barrister specialising in town and country planning, environment, compulsory purchase and compensation, rating and valuation, and other local government and administrative law subjects. He is particularly well known for his experience in relation to compulsory purchase and compensation. Examples of major schemes in which he has been involved include: the London Olympic Games in 2012, regeneration of Greenwich Peninsula, the Windsor and Maidenhead Flood Relief Scheme, Heathrow Terminal 5, Channel Rail Link and Crossrail. He has appeared in many leading compensation cases in the Lands Tribunal, Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) and the Courts. He has also appeared in the Lands Tribunal and Court of Appeal in Hong Kong, in the Grand Court and the Court of Appeal in the Cayman Islands, in a Board of Assessment in the British Virgin Islands and in the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. He is a past Chairman of the Planning and Environment Bar Association. He is General Editor of Bloomsbury Professional's looseleaf publication 'Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Service' and Bloomsbury Professional's 'The Law of Compulsory Purchase'.

James Pereira KC, Francis Taylor Building

James Pereira KC specialises in planning, environmental, compulsory purchase and compensation. He is consistently ranked among the top silks in his field. He has been nominated as Real Estate, Environment and Planning Silk of the Year by the Legal 500 Bar Awards three times, and is regularly ranked in the top planning silks in Planning Magazine. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at King’s College, London for several years.


James has broad experience of compulsory purchase and compensation work, in particular in the context of urban regeneration and major infrastructure projects. He acts for both claimants and acquiring authorities in compensation claims.

Michael Humphries KC is a barrister from Francis Taylor Building

Robert Fookes is a barrister at Francis Taylor Building

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847667465
• ISBN 13: 9781847667465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 818