United Kingdom Leading Case remedyexpectation vs detrimentfarming promises

Guest v Guest

[2022] UKSC 27

JurisdictionUnited Kingdom

CourtSupreme Court of the United Kingdom

Year2022

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Proprietary estoppel: remedial discretion should aim to hold the promisor to their promise unless that would be disproportionate. Default expectation-based relief.

Area of Law

equity

Related Cases

Lehtimäki v Cooper [2020] UKSC 33

Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26

Harries v Church Commissioners For England [1992] 1 WLR 1241

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