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Jennings v Rice

[2002] EWCA Civ 159; [2003] 1 P & CR 8 (also reported [2002] 1 WLR 232; [2002] 1 P & CR DG21)
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (England and Wales), Civil Division
Year2002
StatusPersuasive authority

Key Principle

The remedy for proprietary estoppel must be the minimum necessary to do justice and must be proportionate to the detriment suffered; it is not necessarily the fulfilment of the claimant's expectation.

Area of Law

e

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