“… the present appeal, there was considerable focus on the most recent of these four House of Lords authorities, Delaware Mansions Ltd v Westminster City Council [2001] UKHL 55, [2002] 1 AC 32. The facts were relatively straightforward. The Church Commissioners owned a mansion block of flats. In 1989, following a period of drought, cr…”
“…e, Lemmon v Webb [1894] 3 Ch 1, 11, 21, 24; Davey v Harrow Corporation [1958] 1 QB 60, 71; Hunter at 695D; and Delaware Mansions Ltd v Westminster City Council [2001] UKHL 55, [2002] 1 AC 321, [15] and [33]. It is clear both that this proposition is not entirely correct and also that the concept of damage in this context is a highly…”