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NUISANCE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Consists of any interference of public rights such as obstruction of the public highway or selling of contaminated food.
      - Nuisance would only be created if, a person knowing of its existence, allows it to continue for an unreasonable time or in unreasonable circumstances.
        
        cases :
        
        Attorney General v PYA Quarries Ltd (1957) 2 QB 169
        
        Public nuisance arises when an act materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a part of the society or a class of persons.
        
        Held: dust and vibration caused by the operation of the quarry amounts to a public nuisance.
        
        Lim Kar Bee v Abdul Latif bin Ismail (1978) 1 MLJ 109
        
        Long steel pipers with sharp edges was left by the side of a highway for one or two years.
        
        Held: it is unreasonable and dangerous and creates a danger to users of the highway.
    - - Defined as an unlawful interference with a
        person’s use, comfort, enjoyment and interest over his land
      - In an action for private nuisance, the plaintiff must prove interference with the enjoyment of his land
      - The plaintiff must have an interest in land to entitle him to sue for private nuisance.
      - Persons with an interest in land are the landowner, tenants and licenses.
      - Third parties related to land maybe servants or employees and independent contractors.