Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
COMPULSORY PURCHASE OF ANCILLARY RIGHTS OVER LAND
Shyam Kapila*
Star Energy v. Bocardo
For those who feared that the UK’s highest court’s relocation and rebranding would lead to a revolution in its style of jurisprudence, the judgment in Star Energy Weald Basin Ltd and another v. Bocardo SA
1 will provide much comfort. By a 3:2 majority the Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeal: although SE had trespassed in drilling for oil
* Judicial Assistant, Court of Appeal. I would like to thank Philip Hinks for his comments; all errors are, of course, my own.
1. [2010] UKSC 35; [2010] 3 WLR 654.
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