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The Privy Coun­cil has been asked to clar­i­fy how prop­er­ty dis­putes should be re­solved when more than one deed is reg­is­tered for the same prop­er­ty.

On Tues­day, five Law Lords of the Unit­ed King­dom-based Ju­di­cial Com­mit­tee of the Privy Coun­cil heard sub­mis­sions in the ap­peal at the UK Supreme Court Build­ing in Lon­don, Eng­land, and re­served judg­ment.

The even­tu­al rul­ing is ex­pect­ed to set a le­gal prece­dent for re­solv­ing fu­ture prop­er­ty dis­putes, in­clud­ing cas­es in­volv­ing com­pet­ing or po­ten­tial­ly fraud­u­lent deeds.