A room with a view in English nuisance law: exploring modernisation hidden within the ‘textbook tradition’

Pontin, Ben ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3195-6163 2018. A room with a view in English nuisance law: exploring modernisation hidden within the ‘textbook tradition’. Legal Studies 38 (4) , pp. 627-644. 10.1017/lst.2018.3

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Abstract

The paper critically examines the consensus among tort scholars that an injured view can never be actionable in nuisance. The consensus, it is argued, is based on a problematic understanding of the permanence of early modern nuisance authority, and a neglect of modernisation in the definition of actionable injury in the nineteenth century, in response to industrialisation, urbanisation and, crucially, suburbanisation. David Sugarman's ‘textbook tradition’ provides a valuable disciplinary explanation for the mismatch between scholarly portrayals of doctrine and authoritative judicial formulations in decided cases.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics Law
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	0261-3875
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 September 2019
Date of Acceptance:	21 July 2017
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 04:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125311

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