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Case Report: Lafferty v Newark and Sherwood DC [2016] EWHC 320 (QB)
Landlords’ liability; injuries arising out of latent defects ‘Section 4(4) did not create a form of strict liability. It extended the application of s4(1) to relevant defects which were otherwise outside its scope, and remained subject to the requirement of s4(2).’ This important case resolves (for the time being at least) the question of whether …
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