A High Court judge has de­clared that a Rox­bor­ough fam­i­ly is en­ti­tled to a right of way across a neigh­bour­ing prop­er­ty, af­ter decades of dis­put­ed ac­cess left their land ef­fec­tive­ly land­locked.

In a case in which Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad not­ed the ab­sence of “that spir­it of good and neigh­bourly con­duct” syn­ony­mous with To­bag­o­ni­ans, Maud­lyn, Ava, Kar­maria, and Ka­ri­na Lon­don brought a claim against Peach­es Dou­glas.

The claimants sought a de­c­la­ra­tion that they were en­ti­tled to pass and repass over a nar­row strip of land mea­sur­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.5 me­tres wide and 56 feet in length, which con­nects their prop­er­ty to the main road.