Nuisance | Cases

Private Nuisance

St Helens Smelting Co v Tipping (1865) 11 HLC 642

Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 ChD 852

Robinson v Kilvert (1889) 41 ChD 88

Bradford Corporation v Pickles [1895] AC 587

Hollywood Silver Fox Farm v Emmett [1936] 2 KB 468

Halsey v Esso Petroleum [1961] 2 All ER 145

The Wagon Mound (No 2) [1967] 1 AC 617

Miller v Jackson [1977] QB 966

Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather [1994] 2 AC 264

Hunter v Canary Wharf Limited [1997] AC 655

Coventry v Lawrence (No 1) [2014] UKSC 13 Important

Northumbrian Water Ltd v Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 685

Standing

Hunter v Canary Wharf Limited [1997] AC 655 Important

Acts of Nature and Trespassers

Cocking v Eacott [2016] EWCA Civ 140

Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan [1940] AC 880 Important

Goldman v Hargrave [1967] 1 AC 645

Leakey v National Trust [1980] QB 485

Holbeck Hall Hotel v Scarborough BC [2001] QB 836

Landlord’s Liability

Hussain v Lancaster CC [1999] 2 WLR 1142

Lippiatt v South Gloucestershire CC [1999] 3 WLR 137

Southwark LBC v Mills [1999] 4 All ER 449

Coventry v Lawrence (No 2) [2014] UKSC 46 Important

Cocking v Eacott [2016] EWCA Civ 140

Statutory and Planning Permission

Allen v Gulf Oil [1981] AC 1001

Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13

Remedies

Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co [1895] 1 Ch 287

Miller v Jackson [1977] QB 966

Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13

Rylands v Fletcher Tort

Rylands v Fletcher (1866) LR 1 Exch 265

Rylands v Fletcher (1868) LR 3 HL 330

Read v J Lyons & Co [1947] AC 156

Perry v Kendricks [1956] 1 WLR 85

Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather [1994] 2 AC 264

Transco plc v Stockport MBC [2004] 2 AC 1 Important

Tort