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The Law of Nuisance, by John Murphy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xxvii + 187 + (appendix and index) 28pp (£75 hardback). ISBN 978-0-129-921453-2.
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57 The Law of Nuisance, p vii.
58 C Gearty ‘The place of private nuisance in a modern law of tort’ (1989) 48 CLJ 214.
59 The Law of Nuisance, p vii.
60 RA Buckley The Law of Nuisance (London: Butterworths, 2nd edn, 1996).
61 [1997] AC 655.
62 The Law of Nuisance, p viii.
63 Gearty, above n 58.
64 J Steele ‘Private law and the environment: nuisance in context' (1995) 15 LS 236.
65 Although see J Murphy ‘Noxious emissions and common law liability: tort in the shadow of regulation’ in J Lowry and R Edmunds (eds) Environmental Protection and the Common Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000).
66 (1866) LR 1 Exch 265.
67 [1994] 2 AC 655.
68 Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council[2003] UKHL 61; [2004] 2 AC 1.
69 The Law of Nuisance, p vii.
70 Ibid, at [1.09]–[1.18].
71 Ibid, ch 3, s III; as well as ch 1.
72 Murphy would (tentatively) put the Sedleigh-Denfield v O’Callaghan[1940] AC 880; Goldman v Hargrave[1967] 1 AC 645; National Trust v Leakey[1980] QB 485 line of cases into negligence rather than private nuisance on the basis of ‘least bad fit’, at [1.28].
73 St Helens Smelting Company v Tipping (1865) 11 HLC 642 (discussed by Murphy, [3.05]–[3.08]).
74 The Law of Nuisance, at [2.23].
75 See the discussion in M Lee ‘What is nuisance?’ (2003) 119 Law Quarterly Review 298.
76 The Law of Nuisance, ch 5, part V.
77 Ibid, at [5.25].
78 Preferred by Murphy, ibid, at [5.25].
79 Adams v Ursell[1913] 1 Ch 269.
80 Dennis v MoD[2003] Env LR 34.
81 Adams, p 271.
82 Especially ‘The touchstones of liability’, ch 2, s II.
83 The Law of Nuisance, at [2.05].
84 Ibid, at [2.25].
85 Ibid, at [2.25].
86 R v Rimmington; R v Goldstein[2006] 1 AC 459.
87 R McCracken, G Jones and J Pereira Statutory Nuisance (Tottel, 2008).