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Solicitor wins extra wheelie bin case

By John Hirst

Solicitor wins extra wheelie bin case

Councils across Britain could be forced to hand out extra wheelie bins to households after a landmark ruling.

"Roger Houlker, a solicitor, fought a two-and-a-half-year battle against Congleton Borough Council to prove that he should be given a second bin for his six-bedroom Cheshire home.

The local government ombudsman, Anne Seex, has now found the council guilty of "maladministration with injustice" for failing to collect his extra waste and told it to review its policy".

This case confirms my suspicion that lawyers are full of rubbish...

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 10, 2008 (boomark / email).