Cutting through the knotweed

How encouraging mediation can support both litigation and arbitration

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…