The promised land – proprietory estoppel

Adam Boyle outlines the lessons to learn from the recent high-profile proprietory estoppel case of Davies v Davies in which our very own Leslie Blohm QC was instructed. Davies v Davies [2014] EWCA Civ 568 centres around a Welsh farming family, the Davies, and the comings and goings, interactions and representations of two parents, Tegwyn and Mary Davies, and their daughter, Eirian. The facts are too complex and too involved to recount in full, but can be briefly summarised thus.