Luxury apartment owners who claim the Tate Modern viewing platform violates their privacy have been told the law may not offer any solution after taking their fight to the Supreme Court.
Wealthy residents in four plush flats in the South Bank block have mounted a battle to close down the gallery which allowed 'hundreds of thousands' of visitors to peer into their homes.
They applied for an injunction requiring the Tate to cordon off parts of the gallery or to erect screening to block their view of the Neo Bankside development.
After losing the latest stage of their legal battle at the Court of Appeal in February last year, the owners have now taken their case to the Supreme Court.
Guy Fetherstonhaugh QC, for the Tate, disputed his opponent's argument that 'there was a right to prevent overlooking and safeguard privacy'.
He pressed that in many cases, as in this one, there are simply no solutions in law - and suggested a common sense conclusion would be to simply put up blinds.
A photograph taken from the viewing platform in 2016 shows how visitors can see into the apartments at Neo Bankside (pictured, Mail on Sunday's Charlotte Wallace showing how visible residents are)
The viewing platform seems to give a perfect view of Neo Bankside apartments (pictured)
A graphic showing the locations of the multi-million pound flats (pictured right) and the viewing platform (left)
'As Lord Lloyd commented in Hunter, there are many wrongs which do not have a remedy and, in such cases, it is really not for the court to progress to fill the gap,' he said.
'If there is a need for the remedy, it should be Parliament that does it.'
The Hunter case involved
