MR SEAN DEVINE v MR SEAN DEVINE v TRAFFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL

Decision date: 18 June 2015

Neutral citation: [2015] UKUT 340 (LC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerned whether a compensation claim under a confirmed compulsory purchase order had been validly compromised by correspondence fixing compensation at £118,000 and whether one of two joint personal representatives could bring the reference. The tribunal found the parties had reached a binding compromise fixing compensation at £118,000 (with agreed interest and fees) and, for completeness, held that one personal representative can validly act in relation to pure personalty so as to bind the co-administrator.

Ratio decidendi

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The judge treated the key legal basis for the decision on compromise as the conventional requirements: consideration, a complete and certain agreement, and an intention to create legal relations. Applying those elements to the disclosed written exchange, the tribunal concluded they were satisfied and therefore the compensation claim had been validly settled at the agreed figure.

Obiter dicta

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The judge observed, although not strictly necessary to decide after finding a compromise, that in relation to pure personalty the authority of executors/administrators is several as well as joint so that one joint personal representative can validly dispose of the asset and bind the others; this was expressed as a subsidiary legal view rather than the central basis for the outcome.

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