Lecture 05 - Licenses (Audio)

Principles of Land Law (in English)

This week's podcast looks at the licence. The bare licence is a simple permission to be on someone else's land. It can be revoked at any time and does not bind other people who have or acquire an interest in the land. The contractual licence, by contrast, might give more extensive rights than the bare licence (as the podcast explains). In some exceptional cases, even third parties may have to respect a licence. The podcast closes by looking at cases where licensees might have a more substantial interest in the land under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel.