Property Disputes in the UK Supreme Court: A 2025 Round-Up

Join Gary Pryce as he delivers the next webinar from our Property Practice.

In this session, Gary will be looking at a round-up of principal property litigation disputes decided in 2025 in the UK Supreme Court.

This webinar will consider: 

• Undue influence; secured non-commercial loans to joint borrowers in a intimate relationship; and when is a lender put on inquiry as to possible undue influence. One Savings Bank -v- Waller-Edwards [2025] UKSC 22
• Adverse possession; a squatter’s application for registration; and the timing of ten-year period of reasonable belief of ownership for the application. Brown -v- Ridley [2025] UKSC 7.
• Rights of access to common land; whether there is an effective right to wild camp at Dartmoor National Park; the UK Supreme Court approach to statutory interpretation. Darwall -v- Dartmoor National Park Authority [2025] UKSC 20.
• Can a property developer make a claim against a designer for breach of statutory duty to build a dwelling properly under the Defective Premises Act 1972, section 1; where developer brings a contribution claim for breach of statutory duty to build a dwelling properly, is it necessary that its liability to pay has been established by judgment, admission or settlement; the effect of the amended limitation period under the Building Safety Act 2022, section 135. URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21.

Gary Pryce is an experienced practitioner principally providing advisory, drafting and advocacy services in disputes concerning landlord and tenant law (commercial and residential property), real property law and other contentious Chancery disputes. Gary Pryce has acted for a wide range of different clients in the Business and Property Courts, specialist tribunals, the county court, arbitrations and several forms of non-court based dispute resolution, especially mediation. Gary Pryce has previously been shortlisted for the Legal 500 junior Property and Housing barrister of the year award.