Public Nuisance in UK Law
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R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein (Harry Chaim)
... ... and ingredients, today, of the common law crime of causing a public nuisance. The appellants contend that, as applied in their cases, the ... ...
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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 ... I have referred to were confined to cases where there was a public nuisance ... 17 The case, however, which was most relied on by the ... ...
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
... ... , which raise fundamental questions relating to the law of private nuisance ... 2 In the first action, Patricia Hunter and ... and a person who claimed simply to be availing himself of a public right of fishing. Here the contest arises, in my view, between the person ... ...
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Lawrence (Katherine) and Another v Fen Tigers Ltd & others (No 1)
... ... (Instructed by Richard Buxton Environmental and Public Law) ... Respondent ... Robert McCracken QC ... raises a number of points in connection with the law of private nuisance, a common law tort. While the law also recognises public nuisance, a ... ...
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A.B. v South West Water Services Ltd
... ... the Consumer Protection Act 1987 section 2(1); that there was a public nuisance for which the defendants were prosecuted and convicted in the ... ...
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Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
... ... : "Having considered all the circumstances including the public interest relating to the application for my consent � I have come to ... 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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Hubbard v Pitt
... ... were picked as the main target. The campaign began with a public meeting followed by a week of activity, coming to a head with a mass march ... 218 ... But there was nothing of that kind, (ii) Public Nuisance ... 32 If the defendants had been guilty of an unreasonable obstruction ... ...
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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, ... Since 1945, public demand for water has multiplied many times, and new sources of supply have ... ...
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Wheeler v JJ Saunders Ltd
... ... 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, ... This was said to be an actionable public nuisance. Buckley J held that it was authorised by the grant of planning ... ...
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Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum Company Ltd (Inverpool.)
... ... alleged that the deposit of oil on their property constituted a nuisance, or was a trespass, and further, that there was negligence ... 29 (3) Public Nuisance ... The term "public nuisance" covers a multitude of sins, great ... ...
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