Moncrieff v Jamieson [2007] UKHL 42<\/strong><\/p>\nEasements and ancillary rights between dominant and servient tenements<\/p>\n
Facts<\/h3>\n
The case was an appeal against an earlier case which had ruled that where one had a right of vehicular access from a public road, this also meant that they had a right to park on the servient tenement, although that right was limited to parking vehicles which were reasonably incidental to having access to the dominant tenement. The respondents in the case owned a property in a location which made it impossible for it to be reached by vehicle.\u00a0 The property had been owned by someone who also owned the land between it and the public road. A disposition of the property therefore had also included a right to access the property from the public road through the land of the original owner. A conveyance under dispute had provided a servitude right to access the appellant\u2019s property for vehicles and pedestrians, as well as the right to temporarily stop there in order to load or unload goods or to take on or drop off passengers. The respondent had argued that his rights under the conveyance also included a right to park on the appellant\u2019s land. He was successful with this argument in the lower courts.<\/p>\n
Issue<\/h3>\n
The issue in this case was whether the right of way granted to the respondent to stop and drive on the appellant\u2019s land also translated into a right to park there.<\/p>\n
Decision \/ Outcome<\/h3>\n
The appeal was dismissed.<\/strong> The court held that the right to park could be ancillary to the easement otherwise provided where it was necessary for the enjoyment of the land which benefits from the easement, especially where this could have been in the contemplation of the parties at the time of the making of the easement (for which a deciding court must consider the full context and details of the case).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easements and ancillary rights between dominant and servient tenements. The case was an appeal against an earlier case which had ruled that where one had a right of vehicular access from a public road, this also meant that they had a right to park on the servient tenement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cases","tag-uk-law"],"yoast_head":"\n
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