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Undergraduate 1
05/09/2008

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Term
What is private nuisance
Definition
Private nuisacne is a tort which protects an occupiers right to use and enjoy the land, or some right over it or connect with it, from unreasonable interference.
Term
There are three types of nuisance as stated in Hunter v Canary Wharf. What are they?
Definition
Encroachment on a neightbours land, usiance by direct phsyical injury to a neighbours land and nuisance by interference with a neighbour's quiet enjoyment of the land
Term
What must the claimant prove to make a succesful claim
Definition
An indirect and unlawful interference with the land
This interference caued daage to the claiamnt
that interfernce was unreasonable
Term
Exception to the rule that nuisancce must be continuos
Definition
British Celanese v Hunt
Term
British Celanese v Hunt
Definition
Foil was blown from the Defendant's land where it was stored and had damages an electricity substation, causing the electricity to an industrial estate to cut off this occured once a frew years preciously because of the way in which the material was stored. the trial judge held this to be a private nuisance.
Term
Crown River Cruises v Kimbolton Fireworks
Definition
Fireword display constituted a nuisance when it was inevitable that for 15-20 minutes debris of a flammable nature would fall upon nearby property thereby damaging the property in the ensuing fire.
Term
Thompson Schwab v Costkaki
Definition
The court of appeal held that running a brothel in a respectable residential area could be considered a nuisance
Term
Leakey v National Trust
Definition
The D occupiers were aware of the possiility of a landside occuring age the mound which they occpied became very dry after a hot summer. When the landslide occured, the claimant owners of the neighbourign land clsimed that there had been a nuisance The defendants had not caused the land slide but had failed to prevent it, thus they were held to be continuing a nuisance.
Term
Holbeck Hall Hotel v Scarborough Council
Definition
The council were not held to be liable where their land failed to contine to support their neighbour's, as they could not have foreseen the damage without an expensive survey.
Term
Hasley v Esso Petroleum
Definition
Veale J said that the character of the neighbourhood is very relevant and what may be a nuiance in one area is not necessarily a nuisance in another
Term
St Helens Smelting Co Tipping
Definition
The plaintiff brought property and several months later the defendant began extensive smelting work on its property. D's property was situated within a mile and half of the plaintiffs. The plaintiff alleged tat the fumes from the defendants works had caused damage to trees and shrubs on the plaintiff's land.
Term
Locality is not releveant...

Locality is relevant...
Definition
Where there has been material damage to property (St Helens Smelting Co)

Where sensible personal discomfort has been caused
Term
Sturges V Bridgeman
Definition
What would be a nuisance is belgravia square would not be so in bermondsy
Term
Baxter v Camden London Borough Council
Definition
P complained of noise made by her upstairs neighbours, both being tenants of the defendant ina convertd house. The action of nuisance failed because the noise was part of the ordinary use of the premises and "occupiers of lw cost density housing must be expected to tlerate higher levels of noise from their neighbours."
Term
Murdoch v Glacier Metal
Definition
The claiamant complained of a low droning noise coming from the defendants factory at night which prevented her from sleeping. The trial judge held that this didnot constitute an actionable nuisance when considering the area in which the claiamnt ouse was siutated, near o a busy bypass, and no one else had complained of the noise.
Term
Gillingham (principles)
Definition
Where planning permission is given for a change of use or development, the question of nuisance thereafter will fall to be decided by reference to a neighbourhood with that development or use and not as it was previously.
Term
Gillingham facts
Definition
Held that planning permission to operate a commercial port changed the locality of the area from residential to commercial. The increased level of traffic caused by the port was no longer unreasonable.
Term
Planning permission will not provide immunity to a nuisance action
Definition
Wheeler v JJ Saunders
Term
Wheeler v JJ Saunders
Definition
The D's had obtained planning permission to build two pig houses close to the claimant's land, resulting in strong smells drifiting across the plaintiff's property. The Court of APpeal confirmed that planning permissio could only be taken as authorisation of nuisance if is effects was to alter the character of the neighbourhood so that the nuisance could not be considered unreasonable.
Term
Robertson
Definition
A man cannot increase the liabilites of his neighbour by applying his own property to special uses, whether for business or for pleasure
Term
Robertson v Kilert
Definition
The plaintiff's claim for damage to abnormally sensitive paper sorted in a cellar was affected by the heat from adjoining premises the claim failed as ordinary paper would not be affected by the temperature
Term
Heath v Mayor of Brighton
Definition
Claim for sermons were interrupted by sound from defenan power stations failed as no one complained of the problem.
Term
Bridlington Relay v Yorkshire Electicity Board
Definition
The claim was refused on the grounds of the "exceptionally sensitive" nature of the claimants business.
Term
Mckinnon Industries v Walker (principle)
Definition
As soon as the defendants had infringed the right to ordinary enjoment they can also claim protectio from damage because of unusual sensitivity.
Term
Mckinnon industries v Walker
Definition
Notorious fumes from the defendants factory damagd orchids. As thefumes would have damaged flowers of ordinary sensitivity there was no nuisance.
Term
Maliciousness
Definition
Christie v Davie
Term
Christie v Davie
Definition
The plaintiff had been giving music lessons in his semi detached house for several years, the defenant, irritated by the noise banged on walls etc with the intention of annoying his neighbour and spoiling the music lessons.
Term
Allen v Flood
Definition
No proprietor has an absolute right to create noise in his own land, because any right which the law gives him is qaulified by the condition that it must not be exercies to the nuisance of the neighbours or the public
Term
Hollyod Silver Fox Farm v Emmett
Definition
The defendan, ater a dsipute deliberatley fired guns near the plaintiff's foxes during breeding time.
Term
thomas v nationalunion mine workers
Definition
stiking miners picketing in the road outside a factory could be liable in private nuisance
Term
Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan
Definition
The authority had built a pipe which took water away from the ditch, this was done without the defendants knowledge. Neighbouring land flooded.B By this time, the defendant knew that the pipe existed nd the H.O.L held that an occupier who knows of a danger but allows it to continue is liable, even if they do not create danger in the first place.
Term
Malone v Laskey
Definition
Only a person with a possesory or proprietaty interest in the land alleged to be the suject f the nuisance could sue.
Term
Khorandijan v Bush
Definition
The limitation that only a person with a possesory/ propietary right in the land could sue was ridiculous. Plaintiff was granted an injunction after a man made repeated harrasing phone calls to her at her parent house (reversed in Hunter 1997)
Term
Mckenna v British Aluminium
Definition
over 30 claiamans sued in nuisance over the noise and fumes, some of the children had no interet in the land. Through implementation of Article 8 of the Human Rights Act, their claim was not struck out.
Term
s.8 of the Human Rights Act
Definition
Protects the right to protect family life and home
Term
Delaware
Definition
The claiamnrs acquired legal rights in land severl months after their flat was damaged by tree roots from neighbouring land. their claim was suceesful as nuisance was held to be a continuing state of affairs.
Term
What are the two defences in nuisance
Definition
statutory authority and prescription
Term
Allen v Gulf Oil Refining Co
Definition
Residents in the area where the defendants were operating an oil refinary under statutory authority failed in their claim that this consituted a nuisance.
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