Wales<\/a> \u00e5r 2012. Hus\u00e4garen Claire Rands hade ett 100 \u00e5r gammalt lindtr\u00e4d i bakg\u00e5rden till sitt hem som hon betraktade som en brandrisk.<\/p>\nProblemet var att det fanns ett tr\u00e4df\u00e4llningsf\u00f6rbud i omr\u00e5det. Rands hade ans\u00f6kt om tillst\u00e5nd att f\u00e5 ta bort tr\u00e4det men f\u00e5tt avslag.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rands l\u00e4t \u00e4nd\u00e5 anlita en arborist att ta bort tr\u00e4det. Efter att ha planterat ett nytt tr\u00e4d p\u00e5 tomten trodde Rands att saken var utagerad.<\/p>\n
\u201dDet skulle strida mot sunt f\u00f6rnuft\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00d6ver tio \u00e5r senare promenerade en av kommunens ekologer i omr\u00e5det och lade m\u00e4rke till att det hundra\u00e5riga tr\u00e4det p\u00e5 Rands tomt var borta. Det resulterade i en utdragen r\u00e4ttstvist d\u00e4r Rands \u00e5talades f\u00f6r att ha brutit mot tr\u00e4df\u00e4llningsf\u00f6rbudet.<\/p>\n
Rands advokat argumenterade f\u00f6r att hon inte sj\u00e4lv f\u00e4llde tr\u00e4det och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r borde st\u00e5 inf\u00f6r r\u00e4tta f\u00f6r en lindrigare \u00f6vertr\u00e4delse. Men domaren h\u00f6ll inte med om det.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Det skulle strida mot sunt f\u00f6rnuft att en hus\u00e4gare skulle kunna \u00e5talas f\u00f6r ett lindrigare brott n\u00e4r det \u00e4r personen som beordrat att tr\u00e4det skulle tas bort fr\u00e5n f\u00f6rsta b\u00f6rjan, s\u00e4ger domaren.<\/p>\n
\u201dDetta fall ger verklig klarhet\u201d<\/p>\n
Rands d\u00f6mdes under fredagen till 15 miljoner kronor f\u00f6r att ha brutit mot tr\u00e4df\u00f6rbudet.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Detta fall ger verklig klarhet. \u00c4ven om lagen i Wales \u00e4r n\u00e5got annorlunda formulerad \u00e4n i England har domstolen nu bekr\u00e4ftat att det \u00e4r ett brott att orsaka eller till\u00e5ta f\u00e4llning av ett skyddat tr\u00e4d, s\u00e4ger Sarah Dodds fr\u00e5n Tree Law UK, en brittisk juridisk byr\u00e5 eller specialistgrupp som \u00e4r inriktad p\u00e5 r\u00e4ttsfr\u00e5gor kring tr\u00e4d, skog och naturv\u00e5rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hon menade att de dryga b\u00f6terna \u201ds\u00e4nder en tydlig signal om att \u00f6vertr\u00e4delser inte kommer att tolereras\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Viktigast av allt st\u00e4rker det skyddet f\u00f6r tr\u00e4d och ger f\u00f6rtroende f\u00f6r att de kommer att bevaras f\u00f6r framtida generationer, s\u00e4ger Sarah Dodds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publicerad 24 aug 2025 kl 00.07 Claire Rands l\u00e4t f\u00e4lla ett hundra\u00e5rigt tr\u00e4d p\u00e5 sin tomt. Det kostade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,23,26,27,17,21,24,25,1657,28,29,15,16,18,34,55,31,33,32,30,19,20,51,52,53,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-12113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-varlden","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-huvudnyheter","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-location-wales","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyheter","21":"tag-rubriker","22":"tag-se","23":"tag-sections-varlden","24":"tag-svenska","25":"tag-sverige","26":"tag-sweden","27":"tag-swedish","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-varlden","31":"tag-world","32":"tag-world-news","33":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}