Vernon Knight Associates v Cornwall County Council – WLR Daily

Posted August 2nd, 2013 in appeals, law reports, local government, negligence, nuisance, repairs, roads by sally

Vernon Knight Associates v Cornwall County Council [2013] EWCA Civ 950; [2013] WLR (D) 329

“A landowner owed a measured duty in both negligence and nuisance to take reasonable steps to prevent natural occurrences on his land from causing damage to neighbouring properties. In determining the content of that duty, the court had to consider what was fair, just and reasonable as between the neighbouring parties, having regard to all the circumstances including the extent of the foreseeable risk, the available preventive measures, the costs of such measures and the parties’ resources.”

WLR Daily, 30th July 2013

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