Topic: | Re:Wheelers Garden Centre | |
Posted by: | William Luckman | |
Date/Time: | 27/01/15 11:06:00 |
One of the things every law student learns is that you are entitled to cut off a branch *overhanging* your property, but as soon as you eat an apple from the branch or burn the wood, you have committed the civil offence of a tortious conversion. So far, so academic. Cutting back the bush beyond the line of one's property would be as certain to give rise to criminal liability as if, say, a plant pot had been deliberately smashed by reaching over the garden wall and pushing it the ground. How the OP wishes to proceed is her affair, but it was at the very least reckless for her neighbour to have given the instruction that she apparently did. |