Articles

In this series of articles, we aim to highlight 3 of the most interesting cases in our field decided in the past month. This month: knotweed and nuisance, freehold valuation, and an injunction against urban explorers.

Stephen Jourdan KC and Cecily Crampin discuss the High Court’s decision in PJSC National Bank Trust

• Stephen Jourdan KC
• Cecily Crampin

In this series of articles, we aim to highlight 3 of the most interesting cases in our field decided in the past month. This month we cover three cases from the Court of Appeal, concerning contractual construction and solicitors’ duties of care.

Caroline Shea KC and Thomas Rothwell consider a decision of the Court of Appeal on incorrectly addressed notices.

• Caroline Shea KC
• Thomas Rothwell

There is an intense social and political debate in many parts of the United Kingdom at present, but in particular the upland areas of northern and north-west England, Scotland, Wales and the West Country, as to how the competing demands and objectives of agriculture, recreation and wildlife conservation should best be reconciled. This debate is perhaps at its sharpest and most intense around the concept of “re-wilding”: the circumstances in which conservation efforts should seek to return land to a more natural ecological state with a lesser degree of human intervention, including if necessary by reintroducing apex predators.

• Gavin Bennison