Bennets Courtyard Limited v Bennets Courtyard Airspace Limited [2026] EWHC 1119 (Ch)

This morning the High Court handed down judgment in Bennets Courtyard Limited v Bennets Courtyard Airspace Limited [2026] EWHC 1119 (Ch).

This important decision concerns the identity of the reversioner for a collective enfranchisement per Ch I of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 during the “registration gap”.

Trower J dismissed the appeal and found that the “person who owns the freehold” (§1, Schedule 1 of the 1993 Act) was registered proprietor on the HM Land Registry title at the date of service of the initial notice.

Robyn Cunningham represented the successful respondent, instructed by Boodle Hatfield LLP.