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William (Billy) Buckler

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7 posts · 1967–1989 · 20 friends

About Farmer at Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough; son of Mary (Nancy) Williams.

Farmer at Great House Farm (Tŷ Mawr), Llandough; son of Mary (Nancy) Williams. In the papers as Bill or Billy Buckler. His comments here are his own words as the papers printed them.

Portrait: family archive photograph.

Friends 20

Williams / Buckler family18 mutual friendsBP Properties Ltd17 mutual friendsThe courts11 mutual friendsCounsel for BP Properties10 mutual friendsCounsel for the defence10 mutual friendsCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)10 mutual friendsBP Pension Trust9 mutual friendsDillon LJ9 mutual friendsMustill LJ9 mutual friendsSir Edward Eveleigh9 mutual friendsHollis J (High Court)5 mutual friendsWestern Mail5 mutual friendsSouth Wales Echo4 mutual friendsJudge, Cardiff County Court3 mutual friendsMary (Nancy) Williams3 mutual friendsWelsh Office → Cadw3 mutual friendsEuropean Commission of Human Rights2 mutual friendsHouse of Lords2 mutual friendsPress cuttings (paper not identified)2 mutual friendsFrederick (Fred) Buckler1 mutual friend

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South Wales Echo shared a link with William (Billy) Buckler
· Archive extract

[…] farmer freed

FARMER BILLY Buckler vowed to continue his fight over the loss of his historic family home and more than 70 acres of land […]

William (Billy) Buckler
William (Billy) Buckler

I will fight on to the death.

William (Billy) Buckler

“I will fight on to the death.”

24 Mar 1989 · to the South Wales Echo · source
Source

South Wales Echo, Friday 24 March 1989 (British Newspaper Archive search extract). Legal Wiki EV-0121 · GHF-E090-N15-16.

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South Wales Echo shared a link with William (Billy) Buckler
· Archive extract

(search extract)

… who lived at Great House Farm, Llan-dough, near Cardiff […] Mr Buckler, evicted from the farm house by BP Properties, who demolished the building a week later […]

William (Billy) Buckler
William (Billy) Buckler

All I’ve got left are the clothes [I] stand up in.

William (Billy) Buckler

“All I’ve got left are the clothes [I] stand up in.”

13 Dec 1988 · to the South Wales Echo · source
Source

South Wales Echo, Tuesday 13 December 1988 (British Newspaper Archive search extract). Legal Wiki EV-0110 · GHF-E090-N15-11.

Open the post · EV-0110

Court of Appeal (Civil Division) shared a judgment with BP Properties Ltd with Williams / Buckler family
· Shared a judgment

Court of Appeal shared a judgment: BP Properties Ltd v Buckler

BP Properties Ltd v Buckler: possession of the farmhouse and garden. The appeal was limited to the farmhouse and garden.

👍👎BP Properties Ltd and 8 others7 comments
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👍 6 BP Properties Ltd, Counsel for BP Properties, Dillon LJ, Mustill LJ, Sir Edward Eveleigh, BP Pension Trust

👎 3 Williams / Buckler family, William (Billy) Buckler, Counsel for the defence

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The courts

“The appeal was dismissed and possession ordered in six weeks.”

31 Jul 1987 · Court of Appeal order (the published report) · source
Dillon LJ

“No such documents were, however, ever produced.”

👍 · 31 Jul 1987 · Court of Appeal judgment · source
Dillon LJ

“I can see no escape therefore from the conclusion that, whether she liked it or not, from the time of her receipt of the letters, Mrs Buckler was in possession of the farmhouse and garden by the licence of BP Properties Ltd, and her possession was no longer adverse within the meaning of section 10 of the 1939 Act. Accordingly I would dismiss this appeal.”

👍 · 31 Jul 1987 · Court of Appeal judgment · source
Mustill LJ

“MUSTILL LJ and SIR EDWARD EVELEIGH agreed and did not add anything.”

👍 · 31 Jul 1987 · Court of Appeal (the published report) · source
BP Properties Ltd

“When Mrs Buckler died in 1983 it became clear her son was not going to leave”

👍 · 30 Apr 1988 · A BP spokesman in London, to the press · source
William (Billy) Buckler

“I am here to stay and I will fight this to the death.”

👎 · 30 Apr 1988 · to the press · source
William (Billy) Buckler

“They have got no documents for it.”

👎 · 30 Apr 1988 · to the press · source
Source

BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2 (judgment) · EV-0080 · the 1987 judgment

William (Billy) Buckler posted an announcement with Press cuttings (paper not identified)
· Announcement

Mary (Nancy) Williams

William (Billy) Buckler announces the passing of his mother, Mary Doreen (Nancy) Williams, formerly Buckler, of Great House Farm, Llandough, on 26 March 1983.

Press cuttings (paper not identified)
Source

GRO death index, March quarter 1983, South Glamorgan 28/3029, indexed under both BUCKLER and WILLIAMS, Mary Doreen (FreeBMD transcription). Legal Wiki EV-0067.

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Mary (Nancy) Williams posted an announcement with William (Billy) Buckler with Frederick (Fred) Buckler
· Announcement

Frederick Buckler

Mary (Nancy) Williams announces the passing of Frederick Buckler, aged 58.

William (Billy) Buckler and 1 other
Source

GRO death index, March quarter 1967, East Glamorgan 8b 364 (FreeBMD transcription); BP Properties Ltd v Buckler [1987] EWCA Civ 2; Legal Wiki, “Two Mary Bucklers?” timeline.

Open the post · Court of Appeal judgment · Legal Wiki timeline

Small print: dotted links explain a word (see the glossary); amber-shaded links list every name the records use for the same thing.