Facts
- A gold brooch is found under the ground by a man with a metal detector in a park.
Issue
- Is an object found under the ground the finder’s, or the occupier’s?
Held
- Objects under the ground belong to the Occupier
- There is a bit of room to move here
- It belongs to the land
- Digging constitutes a trespass
- Owners do not just own the surface, they own that which is underneath the surface
-- Download Waverly Borough Council v Fletcher [1995] 4 All ER 756 as PDF --

