Green v Lord Somerleyton
Green v Lord Somerleyton is an English land law and tort law case, concerning easements of surface water/ditch drainage and the tests for nuisance in English law. In this case there was no remedy for the flooding found to be natural and not recently exacerbated by the defendant. The court attached to the properties an old, 1921, easement of drainage passing both land holdings, in this case two common examples of lowland water engineering, dykes controlled against tides by one-way valves, mentioned in the properties' deeds and, duplicatively, established the right by prescription. The dykes lay in the claimant's own land who had failed to maintain them and failed to account for the flows caused by reduction of water extraction from the lake upstream. The claimant had failed to repair the pu
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Green v Lord Somerleyton
Green v Lord Somerleyton is an English land law and tort law case, concerning easements of surface water/ditch drainage and the tests for nuisance in English law. In this case there was no remedy for the flooding found to be natural and not recently exacerbated by the defendant. The court attached to the properties an old, 1921, easement of drainage passing both land holdings, in this case two common examples of lowland water engineering, dykes controlled against tides by one-way valves, mentioned in the properties' deeds and, duplicatively, established the right by prescription. The dykes lay in the claimant's own land who had failed to maintain them and failed to account for the flows caused by reduction of water extraction from the lake upstream. The claimant had failed to repair the pu
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Green v Lord Somerleyton is an ...... by the building up of a weir.
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The claimant blamed inter alia ...... s in The Broads National Park.
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Sir Christopher Staughton
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date decided
2003-02-28
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Jonathan Parker LJ
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John Green v Lord Somerleyton ...... and neighbouring Green's land]
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Easements; natural flooding; l ...... lands v Fletcher type nuisance
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Green v Lord Somerleyton
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Appellant failed at first instance
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before HHJ Rich QC sitting as High Court judge
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Green v Lord Somerleyton is an ...... nt had failed to repair the pu
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Green v Lord Somerleyton
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