And finally… school’s out
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A Birmingham businessman who bought a three-bedroom house from the city council for £395,000 inadvertently acquired a primary school because of a paperwork error, The Daily Mail reports.
Sukhjit Bains, 50, bought the property at auction in 2013, but his solicitor used a TR1 form that transferred all land registered under the same title, rather than a TP1 form covering only the house.
The council’s conveyancer signed the document without spotting the mistake, apparently transferring George Dixon Primary School and its playing fields to Bains’s company, NH Care Ltd.
The error emerged in April 2024 when the school sought academy status and discovered it did not own its own building. Birmingham City Council has now taken the company and Lloyds Bank, its lender, to the High Court to recover the school.
A legal expert described the blunder as “the most incredible legal cock-up I can recall” in 40 years.
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