Trespass to Land in UK Law

  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 2007
    ... ... 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 ... ...
  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council v W. & J. Wass Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 Julio 1988
    ... ... Whether it should properly be categorised as a nuisance or a trespass is probably not a question of importance. The better view must be that it ... 12 The first and best established exception is in trespass to land. It originated in the way-leave cases, where the defendant trespassed by ... ...
  • United Australia Ltd v Barclays Bank Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 20 Agosto 1940
    ... ... author includes among torts which can be waived, conversion, trespass to land or goods, deceit, occasionally action upon the case, and the ... ...
  • Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
    • House of Lords
    • 07 Junio 2001
    ... ... these torts, for example false imprisonment, assault and battery, trespass to land or goods there are others, for example, negligence, public ... ...
  • Southport Corporation v Esso Petroleum Company Ltd (Inverpool.)
    • Court of Appeal
    • 03 Junio 1954
    ... ... deposit of oil on their property constituted a nuisance, or was a trespass, and further, that there was negligence ... 3 Mr ... that the deposit of oil on their foreshore was either a trespass to land, or a nuisance, or that it was due to negligence. The Judge seems to have ... ...
  • Fisher v Brooker
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 2009
    ... ... right, of which the most important is any real right of ownership in land. Intellectual property rights, such as copyright, are not mentioned in ... 17 Where there is trespass to land or goods, or a comparable invasion of intangible property rights, ... ...
  • Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Company SAL and Others (No.4)
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Julio 2009
    ... ... That was however said in relation to a claim brought for trespass to land situate abroad, long recognised as a context in which jurisdiction ... ...
  • Attorney General v Nissan
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Febrero 1969
    ... ... And if Cook had been the owner of land in Pondoland I do not think that his land could have been confiscated ... So no question of trespass arises and we were not invited to consider the case of British South ... ...
  • Ocean Estates Ltd v Pinder
    • Privy Council
    • 1969
    ... ... 14 ... Lord Upjohn and Lord Diplock ... Bahama Islands - Trespass - Land, to - Owners' documentary title and acts of constructive possession ... ...
  • Read v J. Lyons & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 18 Octubre 1946
    ... ... This is that the use to which the defendant is putting his land is a "non-natural" use ( L.R.3 H.L. at pp. 338-9 ). Mr. Justice ... following that which I have last quoted, treats cattle-trespass as an example of his generalisation. The pasturing of cattle must be one ... ...
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