Neath Rural District Council v Williams: QBD 1951
A watercourse became silted by natural causes and the local authority served an abatement notice on the landowner, who failed to respond, and when prosecuted relied on a proviso which excluded from liability ‘any person other than the person by whose act or default the nuisance arises or continues.’ Held: Absent any relevant legal duty … Continue reading Neath Rural District Council v Williams: QBD 1951