Unconditional on fraud/rectification. Needs a costs order. Gmail time proxy ≈200–203 h composing time (ESTIMATE) ≈ £4,870 at £24/h: a floor, see head 8.
B1
1 + 2 + interest on 2 + 8
£661,900
£2,866,000
£4,202,000
Title restored (judgment set aside or register rectified), no fraud finding.
B2
3 + 8
£171,600
£759,600
£1,376,000
Register mistake proven; not rectified.
C
4 + 5 + 8
£1,099,000
£3,444,000
£5,196,000
Fraud proven. Plus 4d–e, 5c, 6 (TBC). Replaces B1/B2.
Savills, GB Farmland, Summer 2025: England poorer pasture / GB average / England prime arable, H1 2025; Wales values unchanged H1 2025
Line
Method
Low
Central
High
1a Developed value (context; not a loss)
20 × house value
£10,560,000
£11,039,000
£12,111,000
1b Development land
1a × land share
£2,112,000
£2,760,000
£4,037,000
1c Remainder (woodland, green)
6 acres × £/acre
£36,600
£49,200
£59,400
1d Existing-use value (alternative)
Vale detached avg + 10 acres × £8,200
£621,000
—
—
Head 1
Low = 1d; central/high = 1b + 1c
£621,000
£2,809,000
£4,096,000
Dependencies: title re-established (1987 judgment [EV-0080] set aside, or register rectified). LA 1980 s.15 (12 years to recover land) and s.17 (title extinguished), unless Limitation Act 1980 s.32 postpones. s.32(3): no recovery of property or its value from an innocent purchaser for value (current owners). Rectification against a proprietor in possession needs consent unless Sch 4 para 3(2)/6(2) applies (LRA 2002 Sch 4).
Legal basis: mesne profits are damages for trespass by a person in possession without right, measured at the ordinary letting value (Inverugie Investments v Hackett [1995] 1 WLR 713). Dependencies: title re-established; claim lies against whoever was in possession (BP 1988–93; Ideal Homes 1993–95; homeowners after); LA 1980 s.2 (6 years) unless s.32.
Rookes v Barnard cat. 1 (oppressive acts of government servants) or 2 (conduct calculated to profit); Kuddus [2001] UKHL 29
TBC
TBC
TBC
Head 4
4a + 4b + 4c
£1,030,000
£3,305,000
£4,981,000
Measure: all loss directly flowing from the fraud, including consequential loss (Smith New Court v Scrimgeour Vickers [1997] AC 254; Doyle v Olby [1969] 2 QB 158). 4e cat. 2 is measured against the defendant’s profit: developed value £11,039,000 (1a) less land and build cost; build cost not held (TBC). Dependencies: fraud proven to the civil standard; 1987 judgment set aside (Takhar v Gracefield [2019] UKSC 13; RBS v Highland [2013] EWCA Civ 328); Limitation Act 1980 s.32(1)(a) runs from discovery or reasonable diligence; s.32(3) bars recovery of property or its value from innocent purchasers; no double recovery with Heads 1–3.
5. Personal harm
Item
Value
Source
Law
Distress recoverable in deceit (Shelley v Paddock [1980] QB 348); in contract only within Watts v Morrow [1991] 1 WLR 1421 and Farley v Skinner [2001] UKHL 49; aggravated damages in tort (Head 4d).
488 case emails sent, 23 Mar 2016 – 18 Oct 2026; 477 in the run from 1 Oct 2025 (47 active weeks, ≈239,600 words). Composing time at 20 words/min: ≈200 h (run from Oct 2025), ≈203 h (all years) → ≈£4,870 at £24/h. Floor only: excludes research, archive visits, FOIs, calls and wiki work. A proxy, not a timesheet; some 2026 emails were drafted with AI help.
Sion’s Gmail, read-only count, 18 Oct 2026 (I-015)
Time reasonably spent on work a lawyer would do in the proceedings, after a costs order.
Time without a costs order in Sion’s favour.
Pre-action work only so far as it is costs of and incidental to the proceedings later brought.
General research, campaigning, FOI and wiki work not tied to the proceedings.
Disbursements (official copies, court fees).
Other family members’ time (not Sion’s costs).
Indemnity route: costs incurred with the registrar’s consent (Sch 8 para 3).
Indemnity route: costs without that consent, unless urgent or later approved.
9. Project costs
Costs to date and to come: Project Plan — cost table. Recoverable as disbursements only under a costs order (CPR 46.5(3)(a)(ii)); on the indemnity route only with the registrar’s consent (Sch 8 para 3).
Inputs needed from Sion
Input
Used in
Hours per week and periods worked; any lost earnings with evidence