Anthony v. Coal Authority

Anthony v. Coal Authority The claimants succeeded in a nuisance claim alleging smoke nuisance from the spontaneous combustion of colliery spoil heaps. Whist the spoil heaps had not comprised a foreseeable nuisance at the time of their creation, when their use had been...

Watson v. Croft Promo-Sport Ltd

Watson v. Croft Promo-Sport Ltd [2009] 3 All E.R. 249, [2009] 2 EGLR 57 (Court of Appeal) After a successful trial by the claimant alleging noise from a racing circuit, when the relevance of a planning permission to the nature and character of the area had been...

Parkin v. Alba Proteins Ltd

Parkin v. Alba Proteins Ltd [2013] EWHC 2740 (QB) In environmental group litigation (concerning odour nuisance), the Court held that where a claimant who had repeatedly sought confirmation as to the identity of the correct defendant from a company in the same group,...

R. (oao Protreat Ltd) v. Environment Agency

R. (oao Protreat Ltd) v. Environment Agency When the claimant member of the Oil Recycling Association sought judicial review of a decision of the Environment Agency to regard base oils generated from re-refined waste lubricating oil as “waste”, The...