Hearings
11 May 2012 [2012] EWHC B14 (Admin); [2017] 4 WLR 170, QBD (Judge Robert Owen QC)
R (Mann) v Somerset County Council
Subject Matter
COMMONS — Town or village green — Registration — Application for registration of land as town or village green — Landowner occasionally holding beer festival and funfair on part of land and charging for entry — Application refused on ground that exclusion of local inhabitants from that part of land on those occasions indicating that entirety of land used with landowner’s permission and therefore not “as of right” — Whether implied grant of permission arising in those circumstances — Whether local inhabitants’ belief as to nature of their use relevant — Commons Act 2006 (c 26), s 15(2)
Legislation Considered
Statutes
Cases Considered
Cases considered in: R (Mann) v Somerset County Council [2012] EWHC B14 (Admin); [2017] 4 WLR 170, QBD
R (Lewis) v Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council (No 2) [2010] 1 WLR 112, SC(E) Considered
R (Beresford) v Sunderland City Council [2003] UKHL 60; [2004] 1 AC 889; [2003] 3 WLR 1306; [2004] 1 All ER 160, HL(E) Applied
R (Mann) v Somerset County Council Considered
Subsequent Consideration
Cases subsequently considering: R (Mann) v Somerset County Council [2012] EWHC B14 (Admin); [2017] 4 WLR 170, QBD
Considered in R (Pereira) v Enforcement and Traffic Adjudicators [2020] EWHC 811 (Admin); [2020] 4 WLR 134; [2021] RTR 5; [2020] WLR (D) 539, QBD
Cases citing
Cases citing: R (Mann) v Somerset County Council [2012] EWHC B14 (Admin); [2017] 4 WLR 170, QBD
Pereira, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Southwark [2020] EWHC 764 (QB), QBD
R (Cotham School) v Bristol City Council [2018] EWHC 1022 (Admin), QBD
R (Pereira) v Enforcement and Traffic Adjudicators [2020] EWHC 811 (Admin); [2020] 4 WLR 134; [2021] RTR 5; [2020] WLR (D) 539, QBD
TW Logistics Ltd v Essex County Council [2018] EWCA Civ 2172; [2019] Ch 243; [2018] 3 WLR 1926; [2019] 3 All ER 312; [2018] WLR (D) 509, CA