Boundry dispute

Slithery

Your neighbour doesn't have to take any legal proceedings. He is perfectly within his rights to just clear the land himself and start using it.

SootySweep1

Hi

What is on the land that your neighbour is trying to claim back ?

Jen

elsien

Worried_of_wakefield said:

Thanks all for your responses and views, having sought  legal opinion I'm informed I would have a 70/30 chance of winning any court action. Advice is  to allow my neighbour to initiate proceedings and simply turn up with research / evidence supporting my argument, this would pretty much remove any costs to me. Now that I'm aware there is an issue it's important that a resolution (in law) either way is given as I dont want problems in any future house sale. A re-measure indicates a gap of just less than 15"
My immediate problem is if my neighbour recieves similar solicitors advice he may back out which will leave the issue hanging or cost me to attempt to officially claim the strip of land.

That is not something you should be banking on. Boundary dispute costs can rack up and if you lose you could be paying your own legal fees and his. 

Have you looked properly at both sets of deeds? 

turnitround

Despite several references to the deeds the OP does not seem to want say what they show.

GDB2222

elsien said:

Worried_of_wakefield said:

Thanks all for your responses and views, having sought  legal opinion I'm informed I would have a 70/30 chance of winning any court action. Advice is  to allow my neighbour to initiate proceedings and simply turn up with research / evidence supporting my argument, this would pretty much remove any costs to me. Now that I'm aware there is an issue it's important that a resolution (in law) either way is given as I dont want problems in any future house sale. A re-measure indicates a gap of just less than 15"
My immediate problem is if my neighbour recieves similar solicitors advice he may back out which will leave the issue hanging or cost me to attempt to officially claim the strip of land.

That is not something you should be banking on. Boundary dispute costs can rack up and if you lose you could be paying your own legal fees and his. 

Have you looked properly at both sets of deeds? 

Even if you win, you are likely to have substantial legal costs to pay. Typically, the winner pays 30% of their own legal costs, and the loser pays all of their own costs and 70% of the winner's costs.