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Blundell Lectures 2026 | Lecture 1 | Nine Tenths of the Law? Adverse Possession and Tenant Encroachment in the Modern World

Join us for the first lecture in this year's Blundell Series, Nine Tenths of the Law? Adverse Possession and Tenant Encroachment in the Modern World. 

They say that possession is nine tenths of the law, but is it sometimes less than that? What else does a squatter need to lay claim to land successfully? Drawing on their practical experience and recent case law, Jamie Sutherland, a member of Falcon Chambers and Judge Ewan Paton, Land Registration Tribunal Judge, consider such issues as the workings of the boundary condition for the adverse possession of registered land, the degree to which successive squatters can aggregate periods of possession, and whether the doctrine by which tenants can add to their demised premises by encroachment is based on adverse possession or estoppel. Join us for an in depth and practical discussion of the latest thinking on these perennial, always challenging issues.

Chair: Esther Woolford (Clarke Willmott).

Speakers: Tribunal Judge Ewan Paton; Jamie Sutherland (Falcon Chambers).

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