Published comments
“Barry Denyer-Green is chair of the Compulsory Purchase Association and is lauded for his “sound commercial judgement and easy accessibility”. He is particularly active in compulsory purchase disputes, and recently acted in the case of Union Railways v Kent County Council”. Chambers and Partners 2010.
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Barry Denyer-Green
Called 1972
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The principal part of Barry Denyer-Green's practice concerns compulsory purchase and compensation; his book on the subject, widely used by practitioners, is now in its ninth edition. He appears regularly in the Lands Tribunal, and has appeared in the Court of Appeal, the House of Lords and the Privy Council on cases concerning compensation issues. He was chairman of the Compulsory Purchase Association in 2008-2009. His practice also includes other local government and public highways matters, as well as those concerning landlord and tenant, restrictive covenants, easements, common land, village greens, development agreements, and other aspects of land law and conveyancing.
Education
LLM (Lond)(1978)
PhD (Lond)(1987)
Professional
FRICS
Called to the Bar 1972, Middle Temple
Member of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions Working Party on compulsory purchase, which resulted in the publication of a report in July 2000 "Fundamental review of the laws and procedures relating to compulsory purchase and compensation".
Elected Honorary Member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers
Recent Cases
Ocean Leisure Ltd v Westminster City Council [2004] EWCA Civ 970
Christos v Secretary of State for Tansport CA [2003] EWCA Civ 1073. (where an acquiring authority reneged on an offer to pay a certain price for a property subject to compulsory purchase, whether it was prevented from so reneging by the doctrine of estoppel).
Publications
The Law of Commons and Town and Village Greens. (2nd Ed. 2006)
Development and Planning Law (joint author) (3rd Ed. 1999)
Compulsory Purchase and Compensation (9th Ed. 2009)