Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, landowner’s lawyers tell court

Any activities other than walking or horse riding should require the landowner’s permission, lawyers said. Photograph: William Barton/Alamy

Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, according to the lawyers for a landowner who is challenging the right to wild camping on the moors.

The public should have no right to undertake any activities other than walking or horse riding in the Dartmoor national park without landowner permission, Timothy Morshead KC told a supreme court hearing on Tuesday.