Court of AppealPublished March 17, 2017Crawley v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough CouncilBefore Lord Justice Jackson, Lord Justice Briggs and Lord Justice Irwin[2017] EWCA Civ 36Judgment February 2, 2017Where a local authority was under a duty to maintain a highway, under section 41 of the Highways Act 1980, it was required to have in place reasonable arrangements for properly evaluating and responding out of hours and at weekends to reports of highway defects which might be potentially serious and represented an imminent hazard requiring immediate attention. If a local authority failed to put in place such a system it could not rely on a defence, under section 58 of the Act, that it had taken such care as in all the circumstances was reasonably required to…

Source: The Times March 17, 2017 00:00 UTC