Flood Liability: Don’t be a nuisance

Weightmans LLP | Property Law Journal | March 2016 #339
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, …

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Flooding: Opening the flood gates

Atlantic Chambers (Chambers of Simon Dawes) | Property Law Journal | November 2014 #326
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 …

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