Regional variations in CBI’s business confidence data

Manufacturers across the UK believe the worst of the recession is now behind them, research out today showed. According to the latest CBI/Business Strategies quarterly Regional Trends Survey, business confidence in most areas has risen for the first time in more than two years.

Squatter fails to prove adverse possession claim

A squatter has failed in his High Court bid to establish adverse possession over property in Bath. The High Court heard that Mr Nicholson and his family had moved into St James Cemetery Lodge in 1981 after breaking the locks, and replacing them with new ones.

New court guidance regarding options to purchase

The Appeal Court has given fresh guidance on the criteria necessary to enforce options to purchase. Charles Scott Developments (South Devon) Ltd (Scott) had sought to exercise an option to purchase land at Undercleave Farm, Ogwell, Newton Abbott, for a residential development.