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Flood Liability: Don’t be a nuisance
Sandra Jones explains best practice for avoiding liability for flooding to another’s property ‘Property owners should be alive to the responsibilities they may face in seeking to avoid flooding and possible damage to their neighbour’s property.’Flooding has been in the headlines again this winter with large parts of the UK being hit by devastating floods, …
Cases Referenced
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- Arscott v The Coal Authority [2004] EWCA Civ 892
- Bybrook Barn Centre Ltd & ors v Kent County Council [2000] EWCA Civ 299
- Green v Lord Somerleyton [2003] EWCA Civ 198
- Lambert v Barratt Homes Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 681
- Leakey v National Trust [1979] EWCA Civ 5
- Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd [2003] UKHL 66
- Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] UKHL 2
- Vernon Knight Associates v Cornwall Council [2013] EWCA Civ 950