Public nuisance: all the world’s a stage

26 May 2023 / Andrew Francis

Issue: 8026 / Categories: Features , Property

Private nuisance, from overlooking to knotweed: what is the remedy? Andrew Francis presents a property drama in five acts

As a number of recent cases have shown, claims in private nuisance are just as much a feature of the landscape of property disputes as those based on other rights and obligations, such as under easements and covenants.

Act 1: Overlooking

London, Bankside: Most of us will by now be familiar with the judgment of the Supreme Court handed down on Wednesday 1 February 2023 in Fearn and others v Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2023] UKSC 4, [2023] All ER (D) 02 (Feb). This judgment upheld the claimant tenants’ claim based on private nuisance to the enjoyment of their flats caused by visitors to the Tate Gallery overlooking those flats from the viewing gallery on the south side of the Tate Gallery’s building at Bankside in London. The Supreme Court gave us a modern framework to use in tortious private nuisance claims where real property interests

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Public nuisance: all the world’s a stage

Private nuisance, from overlooking to knotweed: what is the remedy? Andrew Francis presents a property drama in five acts

As a number of recent cases have shown, claims in private nuisance are just as much a feature of the landscape of property disputes as those based on other rights and obligations, such as under easements and covenants.

Act 1: Overlooking

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Public nuisance: all the world’s a stage

Act 1: Overlooking

Act 1: Overlooking

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Gilson Gray—Jeremy Davy

DR Solicitors—Paul Edels