Two residents one lives directly above the other in a block of flats. The person on the lower floor is a leaseholder, the one above is a tenant with the council. Due to a fault in the piping under the kitchen sink, water intermittently leaks down onto the leaseholder below causing some water damage. Each time the tenant is made aware of the leak she calls her landlord, the council, to come and repair the leak, but after a while the leak starts again, unknown to the tenant. This happens regularly.
As a result of the water damage to her property, the leaseholder below decides to sue the tenant above.
Who is liable for the water damage? And why? Where possible please give sources for your answer.
2006-08-25
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