ABSTRACT
So the importance of proprietary estoppel is that it allows persons to claim that they have rights where the ordinary formalities associated with the transfer of land have
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be clear about when such rights arise. It is important that it is not left to the discretion of the court. As Lord Walker declared in Cobbe v Yeoman’s Row Management (2008) proprietary estoppel ‘is not a sort of joker or wild card to be used whenever the Court disapproves of the conduct of a litigant who seems to have the law on his side’.
