Posted 01.12.15
This article on a pest infestation nuisance county court case involving leaseholders is from Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment.
Ojo & Ojo v London Borough of Hackney. County Court at Clerkenwell & Shoreditch 4 November 2015
The Claimants were secure tenants of the Defendant from 1983 and became leaseholders in 1995. They lived in a two storey maisonette in a block of 50 flats. They had experienced an infestation of mice since 2007.
The experts for each party agreed that the mice had gained access to the premises via vertical ducts which passed through the kitchen and bathroom, and which contained various drains and pipes from more than one property. The ducts were retained by the Defendant as freeholder.
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