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Cutting through the knotweed

Cutting through the knotweed

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Feb 05, 2025
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Japanese knotweed is difficult to get rid of. And so is a binding precedent from the Court of Appeal. So when James Churchill insisted on suing the local council in Merthyr Tydfil over knotweed that was encroaching from the council’s land, a deputy district judge couldn’t find a way of cutting through a ruling from 2004 which said that parties could not…

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