Nuisance Law

Social utility is an often underused concept in the law of nuisance, and yet is one that is able to infuse the law of nuisance with a dose of spatial equality. The right to the city is an idea that has at its core the need for meaningful access to the city. All citizens therefore are able to share in the fullness of what the city offers; to inhabit the city and share in its spaces and spoils; to be present in and experience the city; and to imagine the city, its form, meaning and operation through the practices of daily life. Increasingly, however, cities are being constructed along a neo-liberal paradigm, which prioritises private property over the public, denying and excluding many on the basis of their (lack of) wealth. The law of nuisance provides for remedies which aim principally to protect the use and enjoyment of private property vis-à-vis other property owners. Traditionally, then, it has been interpreted within a predominantly propertied narrative, which has the effect of not only enforcing and perpetuating a propertied marginalisation of people in the city, but also has limited a normative understanding of the city and its socio-spatial dynamics to specifically the relationship between private property owners. This chapter seeks, first, to understand how the law of nuisance can be understood and developed within the context of social utility and the right to the city. Secondly, it looks at three cases that demonstrate the need to incorporate an understanding of social utility and the right to the city. I conclude that this is a necessary development of the law of nuisance because of the way it can redress the negative ramifications of spatial apartheid.

An Ordinance Regulating Nuisance And The Use Of Electronic Equipment Such As Videoke Machine, Radios, Amplifiers, Loud Speakers, Public Address System, Construction Equipment, Transportation Equipment And Such Similar Devices Within The Vicinity Of Barangay 15

What is the law on nuisance in relation to planning permissions? Can a person without proprietary interest claim an interference based on nuisance? If yes can he be awarded damages?
How much has the law changed following the Supreme Court's decision in Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13?

A court of equity’s power to provide remedies for common law tort actions is both broad and dynamic in scope. The principle function of equity is to create remedies through the use of injunctions when common law remedies are not adequate. In many tort actions, such as trespass, assault, battery, and defamation, equity traditionally has no relevance. Equity is normally relevant in cases concerning nuisance and privacy. In most situations, an equitable injunction can only be sought if the plaintiff can prove an injunction is necessary. This also applies in tort actions involving fraud, abuse of process and malicious prosecution, interference of a contract, unfair competition, trademarks, among others. Equity’s necessity in common law tort actions is constantly being redefined and reapplied in a variety of ways.

As variants of the dominant culture homogenize, criticism of any local dominant culture is increasingly applicable on a global scale. This ever greater applicability of critical discourse to local conditions has an enhanced validity in the built environment, where criticism is a reflection of the disenfranchising tendency of modernization upon the bottom billion. Selected communities facing disenfranchisement have reacted by critically producing their own minority form of urbanism within the framework of the dominant culture. As a new method of design, these politically charged expressions of the built environment are dignified as minor architecture. I theorize that these expressions assert a non-violent political proclamation against the dominant culture, manifesting as counter-measures against the ills of global modernization.  I have identified and tested four cases for study, including the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, Student Bonfire, Isla Vista Recreation and Park District, and the Arcata Cannabis Community.  I argue with my findings that those communities who execute a minor architecture not only avoid communal disenfranchisement, but simultaneously counter-modernize against globalization in its power to disenfranchise the community. Such endeavours of minor architecture allow a rare opportunity for self-help development in furtherance of minority equity in the face of widespread global modernization.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe, this book offers a general introduction to the status of environmental liability in Europe. It describes the relevant international treaties and the EC-Environmental Liability Directive and discusses the conflict of laws issues regarding transfrontier environmental damage. It also contains the results of a comparative project covering 14 jurisdictions in 13 European countries (Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden) on the private law aspects of environmental liability. It addresses the main problems of the application of tort law in environmental law, such as the availability of non-fault liability, the establishment of causation, the scope of available remedies and the issue of legal standing. Due to the very limited harmonizing effect of the EC-Environmental Liability Directive national tort law will keep its importance in the field of environmental liability.

El objetivo de la obra es el de contribuir a llenar una laguna existente en nuestra doctrina a través del tratamiento multidisciplinar del ambiente natural en el ámbito de la empresa, con especial consideración a su incidencia en las relaciones laborales. Este enfoque multidisciplinar de la obra se hace desde un punto de vista eminentemente práctico. De ahí que sus destinatarios naturales no se limiten a los profesionales del Derecho, sino a cuantos puedan hallarse interesados en estos temas ambientales desde los muy diversos puntos de vista tratados, incluidas las Administraciones Públicas La obra se estructura en 3 partes: a) La primera de ellas, ""Ambiente natural, empresa y relaciones laborales: consideraciones previas"", pretende efectuar una primera aproximación al tema, tanto desde el ámbito de las ciencias experimentales, como del marco jurídico internacional de referencia. b) La segunda de ellas, ""Ambiente natural y empresa"", tiene como principal objetivo analizar las cuestiones más importantes relativas al ambiente natural en el ámbito de la empresa: legislación aplicable, la gestión y la fiscalidad del ambiente natural por referencia al mundo empresarial, las responsabilidades empresariales en materia ambiental. Finaliza esta segunda parte con un análisis de las implicaciones jurídicas del cambio climático en el ámbito empresarial. c) La tercera parte, ""Ambiente natural y relaciones laborales"", da cuenta de la importancia que en esta materia están llamados a jugar los principales actores de las relaciones laborales y, muy especialmente, los propios trabajadores, ya sea directamente o a través de sus representantes, legales o sindicales. Como podrá apreciarse, la obra cierra con un utilísimo índice cronológico de las disposiciones normativas citadas.