In this post, Sarah Coates-Madden, Senior Associate at CMS, and Fiona Dalling, Associate at CMS, preview the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council. 9 August 1850 saw the arrival at Kew Gardens of a set of 40 new plants from Leiden, Germany. Among them, a discovery from a recent trip to Japan. Named Polygonum sieboldii (the discoverer, Herr Siebold, apparently not shy of self-promotion), this is the first record available of the appearance of Japanese knotweed in Britain … (more)
[UK Supreme Court Blog, 17 April 2024]
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