Public Nuisance in UK Law
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?Personal injury damages have no place within the tort of nuisance': A critical analysis of the validity of Professor Newark's assumption
There is a belief that personal injury damages should be recoverable within the tort of nuisance. However, Professor Newark emphatically rejects this. By considering the two key questions of who ca...... ... submission with regard to private nuisance, but in his search for a categorised system of law erred in his assumption that both private and public law protect the same interests, and thus was incorrect with regard to public nuisance. The article further argues that until the judges truly ask the ... ...
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Far Beyond ‘The Early Morning Crowing of a Farmyard Cock’:
Revisiting the Place of Nuisance within Legal and Political Discourse
Private and public nuisance have been the subject of extensive legal scholarship; however, far less has been said about nuisance as a sociolegal and political concept. Bringing a no...... ... NUISANCE WITHIN LEGAL AND ... POLITICAL DISCOURSE ... DAVINA COOPER ... Keele University, UK ... Private and public nuisance have been the subject of extensive legal scholarship; however, far less has been said about nuisance as a sociolegal and political concept ... ...
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Déjà Q in the Australian nightlife: ID scanners and violent crime in night-time entertainment districts
On July 1, 2017, the mandatory use of identification (ID) scanners as a prerequisite to licenced venue entry came into effect in all 15 major night-time entertainment districts (NEDs) across Queens...... ... ID scanner legislativechange, while general summary offences (i.e., public nuisance) and indictable offences (e.g., assaults)remained statistically ... ...
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Déjà Q in the Australian nightlife: ID scanners and violent crime in night-time entertainment districts
On July 1, 2017, the mandatory use of identification (ID) scanners as a prerequisite to licenced venue entry came into effect in all 15 major night-time entertainment districts (NEDs) across Queens...... ... ID scanner legislativechange, while general summary offences (i.e., public nuisance) and indictable offences (e.g., assaults)remained statistically ... ...
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Beyond the Gaze and Well Beyond Wolfenden: The Practices and Rationalities of Regulating and Policing Sex Work in the Digital Age
Drawing on the largest study of the United Kingdom online market in sexual labour to date, this article examines the legal and regulatory consequences as aspects of sex work increasingly take place...... ... of current laws (which have, since the 1950s, focused on public nuisance and, more recently, trafficking and modern slavery) are ... ...
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Birds Behaving Badly: The Regulation of Seagulls and the Construction of Public Space
This article is about the socio‐legal construction of one of the least‐loved birds in the United Kingdom: the ‘seagull'. In particular, it is about how the gull has been brought within the realm of...... ... ', in a context in which urban-nesting gulls (of which there are many in the United Kingdom) are cast as causing a great deal of public nuisance, ranging from noise, aggression, and mess, to attacks, injuries, and stress. The article examines the measures adopted by local authorities to ... ...
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Mapping the post-bureaucratic landscape: project managers’ perception of bureaucracy in European Union Cohesion policy projects
New post-bureaucratic organizational forms, such as projects, are increasingly used in policy implementation. Their assumed benefits in decreasing bureaucracy and increasing flexibility have, howev...... ... It has been argued that public projectsincrease red tape (or bureaucracy perceived as a nuisance) because ... ...
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Mapping the post-bureaucratic landscape: project managers’ perception of bureaucracy in European Union Cohesion policy projects
New post-bureaucratic organizational forms, such as projects, are increasingly used in policy implementation. Their assumed benefits in decreasing bureaucracy and increasing flexibility have, howev...... ... It has been argued that public projectsincrease red tape (or bureaucracy perceived as a nuisance) because ... ...
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High Court
... ... High Court Liability for Offence of Public Nuisance Wandsworth LRe vRailtrack pIc [2000] 1 WLR 368 'This case is ... ...
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Media representation of regulated incivilities: Relevant actors, problems, solutions and the role played by experts in the Flemish press
This article analyses the representations of regulated nuisance in a section of Flemish newspapers over time. It identifies the groups of people who have been successful in conveying messages in an...... ... Abstract This article analyses the representations of regulated nuisance in a section of Flemish newspapers over time. It identifies the groups of ... challenges for newsmaking criminology, and more generally, for public criminology. Keywords Flemish Region (Belgium), media analysis, media ... ...
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