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Cool - thanks.
Very little on the actual throwing part, to the point of none, unfortunately.
But at this point, it's not like either of us probably care that much, and it's not like I don't get rid of them myself when I hack down overhanging trees.
We should probably grass @cake up, just to be safe.
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If you Google common law tree pruning, and similarly common law and hedge pruning you will find reams of pages, mostly from local authorities, which seem to say exactly the same thing as I just said.
I haven’t read them all. Between 1988 and 2006 I looked after this area of work for a local authority who employed me. I don’t have the journals to hand as I left over 15 years ago. However I used our legal department countless times to enforce common law on the miles of boundaries abutting our woodlands.
If you do prune overhanging branches and throw them back over the fence to your neighbour, and a dispute takes place, feel free to use the precedent set by @cake.