Council liability: the retreat from Anns

Abstract

In the three years since the position of local authorities in negligence was last considered in this journal (SS 2/4), there has been a considerable turnaround in judicial attitudes. Far from being every Plaintiff's favourite Defendant in defective building cases, the current state of the law reflects a more limited liability. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the way in which this has occurred and the problems that still dog the area.

Citation

Ross, M.G. (1988), "Council liability: the retreat from Anns", Structural Survey, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 163-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006282