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Tate-à-Tête (Pt 2)

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19 March 2020 / Nicholas Dobson
Issue: 7879 / Categories: Features , Public
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Nicholas Dobson revisits the Tate Gallery & discovers that mere overlooking is not nuisance
  • Nuisance is a property tort involving the violation of real property rights.
  • Mere overlooking is outside the scope of common law nuisance.

Things can look very different on revisiting. Charles Ryder, for instance, found radical wartime changes to his former Elysium in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. And on revisiting Highway 61, Bob Dylan discovered a novel take on the biblical Abraham and Isaac story: ‘God said to Abraham: ‘Kill me a son’/Abe said: ‘Man you must be putting me on’.

The Court of Appeal also saw things differently (while achieving the same outcome) on revisiting the Tate Gallery overlooking case in Fearn and others v Board of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2020] EWCA Civ 104 (see Tate-à-tête? NLJ 28 June 2019). The approved judgment was handed down on 12 February 2020 by Sir Terence Etherton MR, Lord Justice Lewison and Lady Justice Rose DBE.

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