Ward v Coope

Subject Matter

NEGLIGENCE — Duty of care — Landowner — Defendants’ supporting wall collapsing and soil from claimants’ garden falling on to defendants’ land — Judge finding no easement of support and neither party at fault — Whether parties owing each other measured duty of care to do what was fair just and reasonable to prevent risk of further collapse

[2015] EWCA Civ 30; [2015] 1 WLR 4081; [2015] WLR (D) 34, CA

COSTS — Assessment — Appeal — Appropriate order

[2015] EWCA Civ 283; [2015] CN 556, CA