“IN MY JUDGMENT… the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 confers on members of the public the right to rest or sleep on the Dartmoor commons, whether by day or night and whether in a tent or otherwise…”
So declared Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, in the Appeal Court judgment on the Dartmoor wild camping case. To most of us this seemed obvious, but had been in doubt since January when Sir Julian Flaux ruled in the High Court that there was no such right.
Hedge fund manager Alexander Darwall had challenged the map, produced by the Dartmoor National Park
