BRITAIN: One of Britain's richest aristocrats rode to the defence of the working-classes yesterday at London's High Court.
The eighth Earl Cadogan has engaged in a legal battle with a property developer over whether the term "working-classes" still has any meaning in Britain.
Lord Cadogan is fighting to stop a property developer building luxury houses on a lucrative site in Chelsea which his grandfather sold to the local authority in 1929 for the "housing of the working- classes". The Cadogan family ensured the land was covered by a covenant which prevented it from being sold back to the upper- classes. But London-based developer Dano Ltd, which wants to build four exclusive homes on the site of a derelict pub, says class barriers have been broken and it is impossible to define the working- class and therefore impossible to enforce the covenant.- (Reuters)
