Nuisance in UK Law

  • Pride of Derby and Derbyshire Angling Association Ltd and Earl of Harrington v British Celanese Ltd
    • Court of Appeal
    • 15 Diciembre 1952
    ... ... of the local authority (and in the absence of any negligence on the part of the local authority) the system so functions as to cause a nuisance, that is a mere non-feasance, and the only remedy of anyone damaged is, as I have indicated, under the Public Health Acts. There is no dispute about ... ...
  • Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Junio 1940
    ... ... 's premises and running to the 15-inch culvert unprotected as the mouth of the culvert was by any grid or grating, was of the nature of a nuisance, giving to the Appellant on damage being caused by the nuisance a primâ facie right to recover damages. The Court of Appeal agreed ... 7 Two ... ...
  • Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Abril 1997
    ... ... 1 There are before your Lordships' House appeals in two actions, which raise fundamental questions relating to the law of private nuisance ... 2 In the first action, Patricia Hunter and others v. Canary Wharf Ltd. , the appellants (who are the plaintiffs in the ... ...
  • Bolton v Stone
    • House of Lords
    • 10 Mayo 1951
    ... ... said to be caused by their negligence in not taking steps to avoid the danger of a ball being hit out of their ground or as the result of a nuisance, dependent upon the same facts, for which they were responsible ... 2 The facts as found by the learned judge are simple and undisputed. On 9th ... ...
  • Southwark London Borough Council v Mills
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Julio 1998
    ... ... 4 The Tribunal erred and acted without jurisdiction in purporting to grant relief in respect of alleged noise nuisance. The noise complained of was that generated by tenants in neighbouring flats in the normal course of daily living, and did not (and was not alleged ... ...
  • Manchester City Council v Pinnock (Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government intervening)
    • Supreme Court
    • 03 Noviembre 2010
    ... ... to the satisfaction of the court (a) that one of the grounds specified in schedule 2 to the 1985 Act (e g, non-payment of rent or nuisance to neighbours) exists, and (b), except in some specified categories of case where suitable alternative accommodation is available, that it is ... ...
  • R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Octubre 2005
    ... ... , raise important and difficult questions concerning the definition and ingredients, today, of the common law crime of causing a public nuisance. The appellants contend that, as applied in their cases, the offence is too imprecisely defined, and the courts' interpretation of it too uncertain ... ...
  • Hooper v Rogers
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 Junio 1974
    ... ... Below, the Judge concluded that the Defendant had been guilty of a nuisance by his activities, causing damage totalling some £40 under two heads, both related to the effect of those activities on the occupation of the ... ...
  • Hubbard v Pitt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 Mayo 1975
    ... ... Jones (1936) 1 K.B. 218 ... But there was nothing of that kind, (ii) Public Nuisance ... 32 If the defendants had been guilty of an unreasonable obstruction on the highway, they could have been restrained by an action on the ... ...
  • Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Diciembre 1995
    ... ... a right of way to the house over land of the farm; secondly, in respect of various activities on the farm which are said to constitute a nuisance ... 3 Both the farm and the house were formerly owned by the third, fifth, sixth and seventh defendants as trustees of a pension fund. They sold ... ...
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