June 17, 2020
On the Case: Are a pair of urns listed buildings?
EG's deputy legal & professional editor asks Lucy Morton, senior associate at Town Legal LLP, to explain the Supreme Court ruling in Dill v Secretary of State for Communities, Housing and Local Government [2020] UKSC 20; [2020] PLSCS 94, which raised the question whether a pair of 18th century lead urns should be treated as listed buildings.
Morton outlines the unusual facts that led to the dispute, what the Supreme Court had to say about identifying listed buildings, and the potential wider ramifications of the decision.