Newcomer Injunctions: A new tool for tackling trespass to land cases 

The Supreme Court’s decision in Wolverhampton City Council and others v London Gypsies and Travellers and others [2024] 2 WLR 45 considered the fundamental question of whether a court can grant an injunction against a “newcomer”, defined as a person who at the time of the grant of the injunction were neither defendants nor identifiable persons and who had not, at the time of grant, committed or even threatened unlawful behaviour.

Barnaby’s full article, Newcomer Injunctions: A new tool for tackling trespass to land cases, can be accessed in pdf form here.