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05 February 2009
Issue: 7355 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Tort

Watson v Croft Promo-Sport Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 15, [2009] All ER (D) 197 (Jan)

(a) The grant of planning permission does not affect the private law rights of third parties. The implementation of that planning permission may so alter the nature and character of the locality as to shift the standard of reasonable user which governs the question of nuisance or not.

(b) Damages in lieu of an injunction should only be awarded under very exceptional circumstances. The circumstance that the wrongdoer is in some sense a public benefactor is not a sufficient reason for refusing an injunction.

Issue: 7355 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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NLJ Career Profile: Nick McDonnell, Kain Knight

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Mayo Wynne Baxter strengthens property team with new partner appointment

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Lawyers have welcomed the Lord Chancellor’s reverse-ferret on jury reforms, but expressed ‘serious concerns’ about the decision to exclude fraud trials
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The government has launched a £16m legal support grant to support 48 frontline legal advice organisations supporting people facing eviction, problem debt, benefit disputes and family breakdown
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