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O’Connor and Another v Wiltshire County Council: CA 9 May 2007

The claimants sought compensation for the diminution in the values of their properties because of noise pollution from a new highway. The defendant highway authority said that liability had been transferred to its contractors, and it had not been and was not a highway maintainable at public expense. Held: The road had been constructed for … Continue reading O’Connor and Another v Wiltshire County Council: CA 9 May 2007

London Borough of Bexley v Maison Maurice Ltd: ChD 15 Dec 2006

The council had taken land by compulsory purchase in order to construct a dual carriageway. It then claimed that it had left undedicated a strip .5 metre wide as a ransom strip to prevent the defendant restoring access to the road. Held: The result of the council’s decisions was to leave a ransom strip. Whilst … Continue reading London Borough of Bexley v Maison Maurice Ltd: ChD 15 Dec 2006

Gulliksen v Pembrokeshire County Council: QBD 2002

Mr Gulliksen was walking on a footpath on a housing estate to the house of a friend. He had an accident at a depressed manhole cover on the footpath over which he tripped. The footpath had been constructed by Pembrokeshire County Council, who were both the local housing authority and the highway authority at the … Continue reading Gulliksen v Pembrokeshire County Council: QBD 2002