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Law in 101 words

02 August 2018 / Roderick Ramage
Issue: 7804 / Categories: Features
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Snippets from The Reduced Law Dictionary, by Roderick Ramage

ASBO hedges

The Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 enables your neighbour to complain to the local authority that his reasonable enjoyment of his property is adversely affected by the height of your evergreen hedge. If the LA decides that the complaint is not frivolous or vexation, the height does have the alleged effect and action should be taken, it must issue a remedial notice, which must not require the reduction of the height to less than two metres or the removal of the hedge. Failure to comply can result in a fine and the required action being undertaken by the LA at your expense.

City or town?

The Common Council of the City of London, defined in the Local Government Act 1972 s 270 as ‘the City’, is treated as a local authority. Apart from that a city as such has no legal status, and the inclusion of ‘City’ as part of a place’s name simply confers prestige and reflects history. The popular mark of a city is

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