A woman in Western Australia has tried to stop her neighbours from using their barbecues by suing them in court.<\/p>\n
Perth woman Cilla Carden claimed that their activities \u2013 among them barbecuing and smoking \u2013 as well as their noisy child"},"modified":"2019-09-04T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T15:46:11","slug":"australian-woman-sues-neighbours-over-barbecue-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/04\/australian-woman-sues-neighbours-over-barbecue-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian woman sues neighbours over barbecue use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A woman in Western Australia has tried to stop her neighbours from using their barbecues by suing them in court.<\/p>\n
Perth woman Cilla Carden claimed that their activities \u2013 among them barbecuing and smoking \u2013 as well as their noisy children, breached residential laws.<\/p>\n
She sought legal orders to prevent the alleged nuisances from continuing.<\/p>\n
A tribunal, and the state\u2019s highest court, rejected her claims as unreasonable and lacking in evidence.<\/p>\n
Her list of demands also included orders for a family living next door, and another neighbour, to reduce their patio lighting, silence their pets and to replace plants in the common garden.<\/p>\n
She alleged that wafting smells of cigarettes and barbecues had caused \u201cundue offence\u201d to her in her home in the Perth suburb of Girrawheen, according to a Supreme Court of Western Australia judgement published in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve put [the barbecue] there so I smell fish \u2013 all I can smell is fish,\u201d Ms Carden, who is a vegan, told Nine News on Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t enjoy my backyard, I can\u2019t go out there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u2018They are living in their home as a family\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\nThe State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia rejected her demands in a case hearing in February \u2013 including a request for her neighbour\u2019s children to be quiet when playing outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Tribunal does not accept that [the parents], by allowing their children to play in the backyard\u2026 use the patio for small scooters or toys, constitutes reasonably a nuisance,\u201d the tribunal said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat they are doing is living in their backyard and their home as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tribunal also noted that the same family had already moved their barbecue prior to the hearing in an attempt to appease Ms Carden.<\/p>\n
\u201c[They] have not allowed the children out at night, have not used the patio at night, and have not turned on the lights for several months for fear of reprisals from the applicant,\u201d the tribunal said.<\/p>\n
Ms Carden challenged the tribunal\u2019s decision in the Supreme Court of Western Australia in March.<\/p>\n
In handing down his rejection in July, the judge noted that she had submitted close to 400 pages in her appeal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe volume of material that she has produced\u2026 suggests that these matters have to an extent become somewhat overwhelming,\u201d Chief Justice Peter Quinlan said.<\/p>\n
Ms Carden told Australian media she plans on taking further legal action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman in Western Australia has tried to stop her neighbours from using their barbecues by suing them in court. Perth woman Cilla Carden claimed that their activities \u2013 among them barbecuing and smoking \u2013 as well as their noisy children, breached residential laws. She sought legal orders to prevent the alleged nuisances from continuing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":698618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"yoast_head":"\n
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