Owners of four luxury flats overlooked by the Tate Modern's public viewing platform have won their long-running privacy case at the Supreme Court
Owners of four luxury flats overlooked by the Tate Modern's public viewing platform have won their long-running privacy case at the Supreme Court.
Neo Bankside residents said"hundreds of thousands" of visitors to the world-famous London gallery were looking into their homes in a"relentless" invasion of privacy.The High Court and Court of Appeal sided with the gallery, but the residents took the case to the Supreme Court and on Wednesday it ruled 3-2 in their favour.
It said a viewing gallery was not a normal use of the gallery's land and that it was a legal"nuisance" to the flat owners who couldn't properly enjoy their property. The properties have floor-to-ceiling windows and the Supreme Court's Lord Leggatt likened it to"being on display in a zoo". "Inviting members of the public to look out from a viewing gallery is manifestly a very particular and exceptional use of land," he said.
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