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Handling nuisance claims: the duty to abate a hazard

By: Language: English Series: Solicitors` Journal ; 142(30) 31 July 1998, 720-721(2)Publication details: 1998Subject(s): Summary: Rejects a suggestion that it is time to call a halt to the law of private nuisance by physical damage and to subsume all such cases into the law of negligence. Since the law of private nuisance is a robust tort with significant practical advantages to the plaintiff and it is important in understanding the relationship between nuisance and negligence.

Rejects a suggestion that it is time to call a halt to the law of private nuisance by physical damage and to subsume all such cases into the law of negligence. Since the law of private nuisance is a robust tort with significant practical advantages to the plaintiff and it is important in understanding the relationship between nuisance and negligence.