Smith v Scott
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1972 |
| Court | Chancery Division |
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37 cases
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Hussain v Lancaster City Council
...on negligence he should succeed also in nuisance. 22This led him to place particular reliance on the decision of Pennycuick V-C in Smith v. Scott & Ors. [1973] 1 Ch. 314, where one of the defendants, the Lewisham Borough Council, was cleared of liability for both negligence and nuisance, in......
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Coventry v Lawrence
...participate directly in the commission of the nuisance, or they must be taken to have authorised it by letting the property". 12 In Smith v Scott [1973] Ch 314, referred to with approval by Lord Hoffmann in Mills at p 15D-E, Sir John Pennycuick V-C considered at p 321C-D the appropriate te......
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Anne Mitchell+karin Mitchell (aps) V. Glasgow City Council
...provide a defence only where what was done was a purely policy matter, such as the closing of a school. In cases such as Smith v Scott [1973] 1 Ch. 314 and O'Leary v London Borough of Islington (1983) 9 HLR 83, discretion was not available to the defenders as a defence. The defenders in tho......
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Mitchell and another v Glasgow City Council
...crimes and a consistent line of authority holds that landlords are not responsible for the antisocial behaviour of their tenants: Smith v Scott [1973] Ch 314, O'Leary v London Borough of Islington (1983) 9 HLR 83, Hussain v Lancaster CC [2000] QB 1, and Mowan v Wandsworth LBC [2001] LGR ......
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1 books & journal articles
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Far Beyond ‘The Early Morning Crowing of a Farmyard Cock’:
Revisiting the Place of Nuisance within Legal and Political Discourse
...[1981] 3 All ER 710Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] 3 All ER 349Smith v Hughes [1960] 1 WLR 830Smith v Scott and Others [1973] 1 Ch 314Southwark BC v Mills [1999] 4 All ER 449St Helen’s Smelting Co. v Tipping [1865] 11 H. L. C., 642Stephens v Anglian Water Authority [1987] WLR 1381Stu......