The Weekly Law Reports
[2007] 3 WLR 85
House of Lords
Regina (Godmanchester Town Council)
v
Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Regina (Drain)
v
Same
[2007] UKHL 28
2007 May 8,
9,
10;
June 20
June 20
Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Scott of Foscote, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Highway
— Right of way
— Dedication
— Application for modification order adding footpath to definitive map and statement
— Whether overt acts required as sufficient evidence of intention not to dedicate footpath
— Whether necessary for evidence of intention not to dedicate to have been brought to users' notice throughout whole of relevant period
—
Highways Act 1980 (c 66), s. 31(1)