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NLJ this week: Tate and neighbours

17 March 2023
Issue: 8017 / Categories: Legal News , Property , Public
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Nicholas Dobson dissects the nuisance case that hit the headlines and shocked art aficionados, Fearn v Tate Gallery Trustees, in this week’s NLJ.

Nobody wants to live under constant observation, but were the owners of luxury flats designed as glass cubes and situated a stone’s throw from Tate Modern’s Blavatnik Building extension over-sensitive? Should they have simply closed their blinds to keep out the prying eyes of Tate visitors and their smartphone cameras?

The Supreme Court thought not, in a judgment that goes to the heart of the meaning of ‘common and ordinary use’.

Read 'Tate-à-Tête (Pt 3)' here.

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The government’s plan to introduce a Single Professional Services Supervisor could erode vital legal-sector expertise, warns Mark Evans, president of the Law Society of England and Wales, in NLJ this week
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In NLJ this week, Sailesh Mehta and Theo Burges of Red Lion Chambers examine the government’s first-ever 'Afghan leak' super-injunction—used to block reporting of data exposing Afghans who aided UK forces and over 100 British officials. Unlike celebrity privacy cases, this injunction centred on national security. Its use, the authors argue, signals the rise of a vast new body of national security law spanning civil, criminal, and media domains
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