CA-2025-000320 - [2025] EWCA Civ 1209

ON APPEAL FROM CENTRAL LONDON COUNTY COURT

HHJ SAGGERSON

H00WT502

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand

London

WC2A 2LL

Before:

LORD JUSTICE NUGEE

Between:

JEROME YOUNG

(by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor)

Defendant/Appellant

- and -

THE MAYOR & BURGESSES OF THE

LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH

Claimant/Respondent

MR DANIEL GRUTTERS (instructed by Morrison Spowart Solicitors)

appeared for the Defendant / Appellant

MR LINDSAY JOHNSON (instructed by South London Legal Partnership)

appeared for the Claimant / Respondent

APPROVED JUDGMENT

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