It's a problem that the vast majority of us who have ever shared walls with our neighbours with have most likely experienced - but if noisy neighbours are disrupting your life, you don't have to suffer in silence.
Whether you're being kept up at night by loud music from the flat upstairs or woken up at the crack of dawn by next door's dogs barking, it can be difficult to know exactly where you stand - and what you can do to resolve the situation. Luckily, experienced litigator Annabel Clark spoke to The Mirror to offer helpful advice for anyone being driven mad by nuisance neighbours on how to handle any disputes.
Annabel, who works as a dispute resolution partner at Keystone Law, explained that if the matter was serious enough to be taken to court, you would need to be able to prove that your neighbour is causing "substantial interference" with "quiet enjoyment" for the law to be on your side. "Generally speaking, noise after 11pm and before 7am is considered to be an interference with quiet enjoyment and constitute a common-law nuisance, which ultimately you can seek damages through the court and injunctive relief," the lawyer explained.
