Index card Southwark London Borough Council v Transport for London

Hearings

England & Wales

01 Dec 2015 [2015] EWHC 3448 (Ch), Ch D

04 Aug 2017 [2017] EWCA Civ 1220; [2018] PTSR 333; [2017] WLR (D) 546, CA (McFarlane, McCombe and David Richards LJJ)

19 Dec 2017 (appn all) [2018] PTSR 506, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Hodge, Lord Briggs JJSC)

05 Dec 2018 [2018] UKSC 63; [2020] AC 914; [2018] 3 WLR 2059; [2019] PTSR 1; [2019] 2 All ER 271; Case details, SC(E) (Baroness Hale of Richmond PSC, Lord Reed DPSC, Lord Carnwath, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Briggs JJSC)

Subject Matter

HIGHWAY — Duty to maintain highway — Highway authority — Secondary legislation transferring “highway” from former highway authority to new highway authority — Whether entire interest in land transferred or only surface of highway and sufficient sub-soil necessary for surface maintenance — Highways Act 1980 (c 66) (as amended by Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c 29), ss 259(2), 260), ss 1(2A), 14A — Greater London Authority Act 1999, ss 406, 408 — GLA Roads and Side Roads (Transfer of Property etc) Order 2000 (SI 2000/1552), art 2(1)

[2017] EWCA Civ 1220; [2018] PTSR 333; [2017] WLR (D) 546, CA

HIGHWAY — Duty to maintain highway — Highway authority — Secondary legislation transferring “highway” from former highway authority to new highway authority — Whether entire interest in land transferred or only surface of highway and sufficient subsoil necessary for surface maintenance — Highways Act 1980 (c 66) (as amended by Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c 29), ss 259(2), 260), ss 1(2A), 263, 265 — GLA Roads and Side Roads (Transfer of Property etc) Order 2000 (SI 2000/1552), art 2(1)

[2018] UKSC 63; [2020] AC 914; [2018] 3 WLR 2059; [2019] PTSR 1; [2019] 2 All ER 271; Case details, SC(E)

Appellate History

Southwark London Borough Council v Transport for London [2015] EWHC 3448 (Ch), Ch D

Decision of Mann J reversed

Southwark London Borough Council v Transport for London [2017] EWCA Civ 1220; [2018] PTSR 333; [2017] WLR (D) 546, CA

Decision of the Court of Appeal reversed

Southwark London Borough Council v Transport for London [2018] UKSC 63; [2020] AC 914; [2018] 3 WLR 2059; [2019] PTSR 1; [2019] 2 All ER 271; Case details, SC(E)