Answer THREE questions only. There are EIGHT questions on the paper.
Word Limit – 1500 words per question (+/-10%)
OSCOLA referencing (footnotes) and bibliographies are not required.
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Your answers to the questions must be typed into a single word document. You must add your 6 digit student number to the header of this document. You must also include your 6 digit student number in BOTH the file name and submission title (when you upload it to Canvas).
1. Critically analyse the UK Land Registration Act’s main changes to the law of adverse possession. Do you consider that these have drawn the right balance between the interests of registered proprietors and squatters?
2. ‘The governing maxim is ‘once a mortgage always a mortgage’ and equity jealously guards against any attempt by a mortgagee to acquire anything other than security for his loan by the imposition of certain restrictions’.
Critically analyse this statement with reference to relevant case law.
3. ‘The register created by the Land Registration Act 2002 should never be a perfect mirror it needs to be cracked.’ Critically analyse this statement.
