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Court case involving boulders placed by council

atherlon
atherlon Posts: 102 Forumite
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I’m trying to find details about a high court case involving , I believe Walthamstow council, and them placing boulders around tower blocks and a man dying from injuries from tripping over one of the boulders . Unfortunately I have no dates for when the court case was . This info is for what might become a high court case against my housing association. Any help much appreciated

Sorry if this is in wrong forum
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  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,476 Forumite
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    It will be 'Waltham Forest Council'. Try that rather than 'Walthamstow'.
    2024 wins: *must start comping again!*
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    Sounds very unlikely to me.

    What negligence would the council possibly have from placing clearly visible boulders, and somebody then tripping over them?

    Perhaps it'd help if you went into a bit more detail about your complaint against your HA, rather than looking for a possibly mythical, possibly irrelevant parallel?
  • seashore22
    seashore22 Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    What makes you think this incident happened?

    When do you think it happened?
  • atherlon
    atherlon Posts: 102 Forumite
    ive taked to someone who says he remembers the article in a London paper when he lived there a few years ago
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    atherlon wrote: »
    ive taked to someone who says he remembers the article in a London paper when he lived there a few years ago

    Oh right then...

    Are you sure it wasn’t ‘boulder falls on man, killing him. Counselling is being provided for the family’ As thats the story I remember from the London paper when I lived there some years back.
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    edited 11 January 2018 at 11:43PM
    marliepanda wrote: »
    Oh right then...

    Are you sure it wasn’t ‘boulder falls on man, killing him. Counselling is being provided for the family’ As thats the story I remember from the London paper when I lived there some years back.
    wasn't that "Loony left council pays for boulder to have counselling after death"
  • robatwork
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    Did it dash? Boulderdash.
  • ThePants999
    ThePants999 Posts: 1,748 Forumite
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    robatwork wrote: »
    Did it dash? Boulderdash.
    Your coat, sir.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,339 Forumite
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    ThePants999 wrote: »
    Your coat, sir.

    I would have put it on sooner, if only I were a little bolder.
  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,533 Forumite
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    There was a story ,a couple of years ago and featured I one of the 'compensation programmes ' ,where someone claimed to have tripped on a piece of metal left standing proud of a pavement after a shop had work done,, but obviously ,they didn't die.
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