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Birmingham Development Company y Tyler, Chancery Division (appeal pending in the Court of Appeal)

DATE: 21 Dec 2006

Instructed by the claimant. The solicitors are Eversheds (Gary O'Brien). The opposing Counsel in Caroline Hutton. This will be the leading case on the degree to which premises in a state of apparent danger can amount to a nuisance actionable by an adjoining property owner. The clients are major property developers in Birmingham, and the value of the claim is in the millions.