Nuisance

1. Personal injury, discomfort or inconvenience. Damage to property. Economic loss (5, 2, 7, 6)
2. Local communities, e.g. the organisation of an ‘acid house party’ in a field which disturbed local residents. (7)

2. Delaware Mansions Ltd v Westminster City Council – self-help remedy (8, 9)
3. Claimant needs a propriety interest in the land. (6, 1, 6)
4. Public nuisance ‘materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of Her Majesty’s subjects’ – AG v PYA Quarries Ltd (6, 8)
6. "The very essence of private nuisance…is the unreasonable use of man of his land to the detriment of his neighbour" – Miller v Jackson (7, 8)
7. A court order which stops the defendant from doing the act that has caused the nuisance (8, 10)
8. the reasonable use of land would not become unreasonable merely because it affected someone with a particular sensitivity unless ‘it interferes with the ordinary enjoyment of life" (Sensitivity of the Claimant) (8, 1, 7)
9. A particular individual must prove that they suffer damage over and above the general inconvenience caused to the class. This requirement limits the multitude of claims that would succeed if public nuisance was actionable on the basis of interference (7, 6)
10. Public - Personal Injury, Economic loss, Damage to chattels (Halsey v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd). Private – compensation for the loss of value of the land, economic loss, damage to ‘chattels'. Remoteness Test - Wagon Mound (8, 7)

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