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Mid Bedfordshire DC v Brown

[2004] EWCA Civ 1709; [2005] 1 WLR 1460
JurisdictionUnited Kingdom
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Year2004
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where defendants occupy land without planning permission in deliberate and continuing disobedience of a court order under s.187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the court will be reluctant to vary or suspend the injunction to reward such defiance; the integrity of the court's process and the need to deter flagrant breaches weigh heavily against accommodating the contemnors.

Area of Law

General

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