Private Nuisance in UK Law

  • Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 24 April 1997
    ...... actions, which raise fundamental questions relating to the law of private nuisance. . 2 In the first action, Patricia Hunter ......
  • Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 24 June 1940
    ...... 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 ......
  • Lawrence (Katherine) and Another v Fen Tigers Ltd & others (No 1)
    • Supreme Court
    • 26 February 2014
    ...... appeal raises a number of points in connection with the law of private nuisance, a common law tort. While the law also recognises public ......
  • R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 October 2005
    ...... 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 ......
  • Hubbard v Pitt
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 May 1975
    ......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 ......
  • Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather
    • House of Lords
    • 09 December 1993
    ......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 ......
  • A.B. v South West Water Services Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 November 1992
    ...... 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, ......
  • Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum Company Ltd (Inverpool.)
    • House of Lords
    • 12 December 1955
    ......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 ......
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1977
    ......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 ......
  • Wainwright v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 16 October 2003
    ......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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