Hall v Beckenham Corporation
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1949 |
| Court | King's Bench Division |
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18 cases
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Hussain v Lancaster City Council
...11th ed. at p.404) you do not have to occupy land to be liable for nuisance (e.g. flying noisy model aeroplanes in a public park -Hall v. Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716 at p.728). There is no warrant for reading the first part of ground 2 as if after the word 'conduct' the qualifyin......
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R v Sunderland City Council, ex parte Beresford
...was (in a loose sense) in the position of a trustee with a duty to let him in. (Indeed that is how Finnemore J put the position in Hall v Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716, 728, which was concerned with a claim in nuisance against a local authority, the owner of a public park, in which......
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Waverley Borough Council v Fletcher
...to?'" 49 The basis of that ruling, and of Mr. Munby's submission to like effect before us, was a decision of Finnemore J in Hall v. Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716, which concerned an action of nuisance against a local authority in respect of noise from the flying of model aircraft in......
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R Peter Day v Shropshire Council
...Lords held that the child had not been a trespasser so the father's claim against the Corporation should go forward to trial. 49 In Hall v Beckenham Corpn [1949] 1 KB 716, the local authority managed and controlled a recreation ground that it had acquired under section 164 PHA 1875. Neighb......
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Criteria for Registration in Commons Act 2006, Section 15
...facilities to such persons whom the authority thought fit, either with or without a charge. 114 Hall v Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716, where it was held that the corporation was bound to admit any member of the public who wanted to enter the park during the hours that it was open; Bl......
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Restrictive Covenants and Other Restrictions on the Use of Freehold Land in Public Ownership
...as public walks or pleasure grounds and confers on the public a right to use such land for recreation; see Hall v Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716; it was confirmed in Blake v Hendon Corporation [1962] 1 QB 283, that the public had a right of free and unrestricted use to a park which h......
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Town and Village Greens
...recreational facilities to such persons whom the authority thought fit, either with or without a charge. 71 Hall v Beckenham Corporation [1949] 1 KB 716, where it was held that the corporation was bound to admit any member of the public who wanted to enter the park during the hours that it ......
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Shopping in the Public Realm: A Law of Place
...Governing Decline (2006)48±57.124 There is a long line of cases holding that parks are held on public trust: see Hall v.Beckenham Corpn [1949] 1 K.B. 716; Waverley Borough Council v. Fletcher[1996] Q.B. 334 where the local authority, not the finder, were held to be the ownerof the disputed ......