Nuisance
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R v Bristol City Council, ex parte Everett
Steep staircase in property – Environmental health officer claiming property constituted statutory nuisance – Council serving abatement notice – Council taking legal advice and withdrawing notice – Applicant seeking judicial…
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Bybrook Barn Garden Centre Ltd and others v Kent County Council
Stream passing through culvert beneath road maintainable by defendants – Highway and other works in catchment area causing greater run-off of rainwater – Culvert initially adequate but failing to deal…
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Issa and another v Hackney London Borough Council
Property owned by local authority -Statutory nuisance – Condition of tenant’s flat prejudicial to health – Local authority pleading guilty to offence under Public Health Act 1936 – Local authority…
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Hunter and others v Canary Wharf Ltd Hunter and others v London Docklands Development Corporation
Preliminary issues — Nuisance — Interference with television reception and deposit of dust on property — Whether television reception analogous with loss of prospect — Whether defence of statutory authority…
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Haringey London Borough Council v Jowett
Tenant complaining of traffic noise – Whether traffic noise constituted a nuisance injurious to health – Whether nuisance attributable to council as landlords – Environmental Protection Act 1990, sections 79(1)(a),…
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
Nuisance – Building causing interference with television reception – Whether actionable private nuisance – Court of Appeal holding such interference not actionable – House of Lords dismissing appeal Nuisance -…
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Blackburn and another v ARC Ltd t/a Greenways Landfill
Plaintiff householder suffering from smells and litter escaping from adjacent waste disposal site – Whether activity authorised by waste disposal permit – Whether defendants entitled to benefit of “give and…
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Hussain and another v Lancaster City Council
Liability of council in nuisance and negligence for wrongful acts of their tenants
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Cunningham v Birmingham City Council
Council house posing hazards for occupier’s hyperactive autistic child – Occupier prosecuting council for alleged statutory nuisance – Whether “prejudicial to health” calls for subjective or objective interpretation
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PP 2002/28
The House of Lords decision in Delaware Mansions Ltd v Westminster City Council [2001] 44 EG 150 (CS) affirms that liability for damage caused by encroaching tree roots is incurred…
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PP 2002/13
Q The mentally unwell tenant of the flat immediately above mine makes such a disturbance that life has become hell. My lease contains no covenant by the landlord to enforce…
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Delaware Mansions Ltd and another v Westminster City Council
Nuisance — Tree root damage — Cause of action — Change of ownership after physical damage — Whether continuing nuisance — Whether new owner entitled to costs of remedial works