There is no general rule of agency between married or cohabiting couples; the question is whether in the circumstances of a particular case one is the agent of another. A landowner or occupier does not owe a non-delegable duty of care to owners or occupiers of adjoining premises. A council has no obligation to supervise work on a building site for which its approval has not been required or given. Where a plaintiff alleges property damage from neighbouring works, temporal proximity alone is insufficient to establish causation without evidence that the mechanism of damage (such as tree root extension to foundations) actually existed.
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