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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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Gateley Legal—Caroline Pope & Bob Maynard

Construction team bolstered by hire of senior consultant duo

Switalskis—four appointments

Switalskis—four appointments

Firm expands residential conveyancing team with quadruple appointment

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

mfg Solicitors—Claire Pope

Private client team welcomes senior associatein Worcester

NEWS
The controversial Mazur ruling, which caused widespread uncertainty about the role of non-solicitors in litigation work, has been overturned on appeal
Two landmark social media cases in the US could influence social media regulation in the UK, lawyers predict
Barristers have urged the government to set up Nightingale-style specialist courts, with jury trials, to prioritise rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse trials
Victims of violent crimes who suffer life-changing injuries receive less than half the financial support today than those in the 1990s, according to a senior personal injury lawyer
Rising numbers of cases, an increase in litigants in person and an overall lack of investment is piling pressure on the family court, the Law Society has warned
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