Wild-camping on Dartmoor: a note on the legal background to Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2023] EWHC 35 (Ch)
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.
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Valley View v NHS Property Services Ltd [2022] EWHC 1393
Edwin Johnson J has handed down judgment in Valley View v NHS Property Services Ltd [2022] EWHC 1393. Jonathan Gaunt QC, Nathaniel Duckworth and Gavin Bennison acted for the successful landlord in these five ‘test cases’ which considered whether GP tenants are liable to pay service charges to their NHS landlord.
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Your Appeal Fails: London Borough of Hackney v Okoro [2020] EWCA Civ 681
London Borough of Hackney v Okoro [2020] EWCA Civ 681. An appeal to the Court of Appeal on the issue of whether appeals of possession orders are caught by the Practice Direction 51Z. Gavin Bennison discusses.
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Managing Enfranchisement Claims during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Gary Cowen QC and Gavin Bennison on Managing Enfranchisement Claims during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
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Trespassers and Human Rights - Where are we now?
Those who act for private sector landlords in residential possession proceedings will be familiar with the decision of the Supreme Court in McDonald v McDonald [2017] AC 273, which was argued successfully by Stephen Jourdan QC and Ciara Fairly of Falcon Chambers.
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