JJ Wilson (Ipswich) Ltd v Joanne Moore (Valuation Officer)

Decision date: 5 March 2021

Neutral citation: [2021] UKUT 44 (LC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerned whether a second proposal to alter the rating list was invalid because it was made on the same ground as an earlier proposal. The Upper Tribunal found both proposals arose from the same ground and were materially the same, so the second was prohibited and invalid under regulation 4(3)(b)(i); the appeal was struck out as having no reasonable prospect of success. The Valuation Officer was not estopped from relying on invalidity despite not having served an invalidity notice.

Ratio decidendi

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A later proposal by the same interested person in the same capacity about the same hereditament is invalid under reg 4(3)(b)(i) where it is materially the same in ground and substance as an earlier proposal; material sameness, not mere wording differences, determines prohibition. The Valuation Officer’s failure to serve an invalidity notice does not necessarily prevent the VO from later asserting invalidity if an objective appraisal shows the proposals are fundamentally the same.

Obiter dicta

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The judgment indicates that estoppel by convention and related estoppel arguments are unlikely to succeed against a Valuation Officer performing statutory duties to maintain an accurate rating list, because public law considerations limit the availability of estoppel in this context. Also, small differences in wording or form will not automatically place proposals on different statutory grounds if the substantive reasons and outcomes are the same.

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