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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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