On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, J. Chisholm wrote:

Where I used to live some idiot insisted on parking his (almost)HGV on
the footway. Apart from the damage and difficulty in getting past with
prams/pushchair etc, the water main beneath the path eventually failed.

Now if only it were worth suing such idiots.

Why isn't it? If the damage is worth less than 5000 UKP (which seems
likely), the council could do it via the small claims process. That's
simple and quick, and the court can't award costs, so even if the council
loses, it doesn't cost them anything other than the wasted time. Being a
large organisation who would be launching these cases quite often, they
could run the operation very cheaply, and pretty solidly, so they should
do well at it.

tom

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