R (Kind) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Subject Matter

HIGHWAY — Right of way — Definitive map — Right of way originally shown on map as road used as public path — Reclassification as bridleway — Council subsequently making modification order to show right of way as byway open to all traffic — Defendants refusing to confirm modification order — Whether earlier reclassification as bridleway extinguishing any public vehicular rights — National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, s 32(4)(b) — Countryside Act 1968, Sch 3, Pt III, paras 9, 10

[2006] QB 113; [2005] 3 WLR 616