Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan and Others
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | Viscount Maugham,Lord Atkin,Lord Wright,Lord Romer,Lord Porter |
| Judgment Date | 24 June 1940 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1940] UKHL J0624-1 |
| Date | 24 June 1940 |
| Court | House of Lords |
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336 cases
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Ali v The Bradford Metropolitan District Council
...the highway but by something done by the highway authority, or for which the highway authority have become responsible (c/f Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?path=/uk/cases/UKHL/1940/2.html [1940] AC 880 and see section 130(3) of the 1980 Act), liab......
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Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd
...National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, building on the decision in the leading case of Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan [1940] AC 880, establish that occupation of land carries with it a duty to one's neighbour. An occupier must do whatever is reaso......
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1 firm's commentaries
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A Licence Can End Up Being A Real Nuisance
...for the nuisance even if she did not directly cause it. The relevant test is set out in Sedleigh Denfield v O'Callagan & Other [1940] A.C. 880: an owner may be regarded as an occupier of property for the purposes of liability for nuisance if he has allowed others to live or undertake ac......
18 books & journal articles
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Easements and Nuisance
...personal but the court considered that it could run with the land and: 56 50 [1973] Ch 275. 51 [1973] Ch 275 at 280. 52 [1940] UKHL 2, [1940] AC 880. See para 7.7. 53 [1922] 2 IR 1. 54 Bradley v Heslin [2014] EWHC 3267 (Ch), [2014] All ER (D) 185 (Oct) involved an easement for a dominant ow......
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The site
...168 Cf Video London Sound Studios Ltd v Asticus (GMS) Ltd (Unreported, TCC, hhJ Wilcox, 6 March 2001). 169 Sedleigh-Denield v O’Callaghan [1940] aC 880 at 897, per Lord atkin, at 904, per Lord Wright; King v London Borough of Harrow (1994) 39 Con Lr 21 at 50, per hhJ LLoyd QC. 170 Andreae v......
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Table of Cases
...(Gloucester) Ltd (2000) 80 P & CR 324, [2000] 3 PLR 61, [2000] All ER (D) 563, ChD 132 Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] UKHL 2, [1940] AC 880, [1940] 3 All ER 349, 109 LJKB 893, HL 81, 86–87, 88 Sefton (Earl of) v Tophams Ltd (No 2) [1967] 1 AC 50, [1966] 2 WLR 814, [1966] 1 All ER 10......
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Table of Cases
...Scruttons Ltd v Midland Silicones Ltd [1962] AC 446, [1962] 2 WLR 186, [1962] 1 All ER 1, HL xv, 79–104 Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880, [1940] 3 All ER 439, 164 LT 72, HL 9 xxxiv Table of Cases Shevill v Press Alliance SA [1996] AC 959, [1996] 3 WLR 420, [1996] 3 All ER 929, ......
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