Private Nuisance in UK Law
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
...... actions, which raise fundamental questions relating to the law of private nuisance. . 2 In the first action, Patricia Hunter ......
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Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan and Others
...... 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 ...The Appellant contends that the Respondents are liable for a private nuisance for which they are responsible. My Lords, I look upon the word ......
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Lawrence (Katherine) and Another v Fen Tigers Ltd & others (No 1)
...... appeal raises a number of points in connection with the law of private nuisance, a common law tort. While the law also recognises public ......
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R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
...... ingredients, today, of the common law crime of causing a public nuisance. The appellants contend that, as applied in their cases, the offence is ...It seems clear that what we would now call the tort of private nuisance, recognised in the Assize of Nuisance, provided a remedy ......
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Hubbard v Pitt
......218 . But there was nothing of that kind, (ii) Public Nuisance . . 32 If the defendants had been guilty of an unreasonable ...v. Veitch (1942) A.C. 435 . . . 37 (v) Private Nuisance . . 38 As the argument developed, the plaintiffs placed ......
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Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather
......negligence, nuisance and the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher (1868) L.R.3 H.L. 330. The judge, ... of harm is indeed a prerequisite of the recovery of damages in private nuisance, as in the case of public nuisance. I refer in particular to the ......
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A.B. v South West Water Services Ltd
...... Protection Act 1987 section 2(1); that there was a public nuisance for which the defendants were prosecuted and convicted in the Exeter Crown ... reference to the facts of this case—to oppressive action by private corporations or individuals. Where one man is more powerful than another, ......
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Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum Company Ltd (Inverpool.)
......McMeakin (her Master) was based upon trespass, nuisance and negligence. . 14 Devlin, J., decided that the ... the Court of Appeal that the Appellants were not responsible for a private nuisance in any ordinary sense. What was done may possibly have ......
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Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
......Gouriet, as a private citizen, was entitled to come to the court and ask for an injunction ... was that agreeing that the case was in two parts, one of public nuisance and the other of private nuisance "in substance, I cannot but come to the ......
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Wainwright v Home Office
......The search must take place in a completely private room in the presence of two officers of the same sex as the visitor. The ...Common law torts include trespass, nuisance, defamation and malicious falsehood; there is the equitable action for ......
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