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Lord Chancellors Dept

Answer

Mr. Laxton: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many (a) double registration and (b) other domestic boundary disputes were handled by the Land Registry in (a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999 and (d) 2000; of these, how many were (i) the subject of court action, (ii) resolved in court and (iii) settled in court on the basis of (A) loser pays winner's costs, (B) each party pays its own costs and (C) other arrangements for bearing costs; how long on average it took to settle such disputes; and what the average legal costs were for both parties combined. [159676] Jane Kennedy: The Land Registry does not keep a record of the total number of boundary disputes which arise in cases it handles. It does, however, maintain a record of those cases in which an error in the extent of a registered title leads to the payment of indemnity under the Land Registration Act 1925. The figures for the last four financial years are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of cases 1997-98 231 1998-99 288 1999-2000 359 2000-01 329 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. To determine how many of these related to (a) double registrations and (b) domestic properties would be possible only at disproportionate cost.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

159676; 367 c690-1W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Administrative delays Land Legal aid scheme Ownership Property rights Tenure HM Land Registry

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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