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GRAND CHAMBER JUDGMENT J.A. PYE (OXFORD) LTD & J.A. PYE (OXFORD) LAND LTD v. UNITED KINGDOM
The European Court of Human Rights has today delivered at a public hearing in the Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, its Grand Chamber judgment 1 in the case of J.A. Pye (Oxford) Ltd and J.A. Pye (Oxford) Land Ltd v. the United Kingdom (application no. 44302/02).
The Court held, by ten votes to seven, that there had been no violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the applicant companies’ loss of ownership of 23 hectares of agricultural land through “adverse possession” to a neighbour who had used the land for more than 12 years without permission. (The judgment is available in English and French.)
The applicants are two United Kingdom companies, J.A. Pye (Oxford) Ltd and J.A. Pye (Oxford) Land Ltd. J.A. Pye (Oxford) Land Ltd was the registered owner of a plot of 23 hectares of agricultural land in Berkshire (United Kingdom). J.A. Pye (Oxford) Ltd was the former owner of the land .
The value of the land was disputed. The applicant companies claimed, in losing the land, they had lost over 10 million pounds sterling (GBP). The United Kingdom Government put the value of the land in 1996 at GBP 785,000, and in July 2002 at GBP 2.5 million.
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