‘When wealthy landowners, Alexander and Diana Darwall, sued a national park authority to stop people pitching their tents on the Dartmoor Commons, few expected the dispute to take a constitutional turn. Yet this was the outcome of Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority[2025] UKSC 20, where the Supreme Court’s decisive rejection of the landowners’ claims turned on statutory interpretation, the right to protect private property and the principle of legality, as well as providing a confirmation that the Attorney General should be joined where public rights are at stake.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 4th June 2025
Source: ukconstitutionallaw.org
