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Flooding: Opening the flood gates
Andrew Williams assesses the law where property is damaged as a result of something on neighbouring land ‘Even where strict liability can be established according to the principles of Rylands v Fletcher, the rules of remoteness of damage are the same as in private nuisance generally. Accordingly there can be no liability for an unforeseeable …
Cases Referenced
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- Arscott v The Coal Authority [2004] EWCA Civ 892
- British Celanese v Hunt (Capacitors) Ltd [1969] 2 All ER 1252
- Cambridge Water Co Ltd v Eastern Counties Leather plc [1993] UKHL 12
- Green v Lord Somerleyton [2003] EWCA Civ 198
- Home Brewery plc v William Davis & Co (Loughborough) Ltd [1987] 1 All ER 637
- Lambert v Barratt Homes Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 681
- Leakey v National Trust [1979] EWCA Civ 5
- Miller & anr v Jackson & anr [1977] EWCA Civ 6
- Northumbrian Water Ltd v McAlpine Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 685
- Rylands v Fletcher [1868] UKHL 1
- Vernon Knight Associates v Cornwall Council [2013] EWCA Civ 950
- Whalley v Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co (1884) 13 QBD 131)