Trespass in UK Law

  • Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 15 June 1964
    ... ... for loss and injury caused by (1) the negligence of the Defendant in driving a motor-car and (2) the commission by the Defendant of a trespass to the person ... 3 The sole question is whether the action is statute-barred. The Plaintiff admits that the action for negligence is barred after ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 May 2007
    ... ... Acting in good faith, they took control of the claimant company's assets and undertaking. The claimant says that this was not only a trespass to its land and a conversion of its chattels but also the tort of unlawful interference with its contractual relations. It claims that the defendants ... ...
  • Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company (Nos 4 & 5)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 May 2002
    ... ... The contrast is with lesser acts of interference. If these cause damage they may give rise to claims for trespass or in negligence, but they do not constitute conversion ... 40 The judicially approved description of the tort in Clerk and Lindsell ... ...
  • United Australia Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 20 August 1940
    ... ... A learned author includes among torts which can be waived, conversion, trespass to land or goods, deceit, occasionally action upon the case, and the action for extorting money by threats. (Winfield on "The Province of the Law of ... ...
  • British Railways Board v Herrington
    • House of Lords
    • 16 February 1972
    ... ... I think Lord Goddard accurately stated the law when he said "repeated trespass of itself confers no licence … to find a licence there must be evidence either of express permission or that the landowner has so conducted himself ... ...
  • Bocardo SA v Star Energy UK Onshore Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 June 2009
    ... ... bores pipelines at depth beneath the landowner's land in order to recover petroleum from within the licensed area, is he committing a trespass? (2) if the petroleum licensee is thereby committing a trespass, then what measure of damages is the landowner entitled to obtain for any past and ... ...
  • Jaggard v Sawyer
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 18 July 1994
    ... ... Honour Judge Jack QC, sitting in the Weymouth County Court, refused the plaintiff, Mrs Jaggard, injunctions to restrain continuing acts of trespass and breaches of covenant and awarded her damages in lieu. The plaintiff says the judge should have granted injunctions. This appeal requires the ... ...
  • Addie (Robert) and Sons (Collieries) Ltd v Dumbreck
    • House of Lords
    • 25 February 1929
    ... ... would countenance the idea against which I wish to raise my protest f that, unless a proprietor takes such measures as effectually to stop trespass, the trespasser becomes a licensee ... 17 Something has been said about fencing. There is no duty on a proprietor to fence his ... ...
  • Gora and Others v Commissioners of Customs and Excise; Dannatt v Same
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 April 2003
    ... ... In an action for trespass, the defence was that, there having been no seizure by the officers, the action of trespass could not be maintained. The jury were directed that the ... ...
  • R (C) v Middlesbrough Council; A v Hoare and other appeals
    • House of Lords
    • 30 January 2008
    ... ... An action for an intentional trespass to the person is not an action for "negligence, nuisance or breach of duty" within the meaning of section 11(1). The lower courts are bound by this ... ...
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