Six phases · public summary
A high-level map of how one property dispute became twenty-two years of court orders, bankruptcy, lost assets, and a Crown hold that still blocks the family home.
Phases from development to Crown hold.
From first dispute to today.
Documents in the case record.
Each phase led to the next — not isolated mistakes but a chain Mr Lake says was never broken.
A business arrangement to develop property. Planning obtained; access dispute stops progress.
Verbal land deal and documented payments. Mr Lake says sums were never fairly weighed in later proceedings.
Opposing claim issued. Limitation and payment evidence disputed. Outcome said to rest on incomplete material before the court.
Bankruptcy order made. Mr Lake says the underlying debt had already been settled — a live challenge today.
Property restrictions, lost assets, complaints to regulators and human rights routes — without effective remedy on his account.
Restriction still on the family home. UK focus: annulment, bank, and lifting the hold.
Planning permission without lawful access, Mr Lake says, set up a dispute that payments were meant to resolve — but those payments never became the centre of the civil claim.
Bankruptcy and the Crown hold followed. Complaints and appeals did not lift the restriction. That is why Phase 6 is the live priority — see current focus.
Understand the pattern
The violations page explains how courts, lawyers, and institutions failed across every phase.