Hunter v Canary Wharf (1997)

Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
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Court	House of lords
Date decided	24 April 1997
Citation(s)	[1997] UKHL 14, [1997] AC 655, [1997] 2 WLR 684, [1997] 2 All ER 426, [1997] 2 FLR 342, [1997] Fam Law 601
Keywords
	Nuisance, protected property rights

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[1997] AC 655 (HL). A resident of London docklands bought an action in Nuisance against the developers of the Canary Wharf tower. The nuisances complained of included, among other things, deposits of building dust over the local properties, and intereference with television reception. The House of lords held that dust deposits could amount to a nuisance, if damage was proved, but interference with television was not an interference with resisdents' property rights. The House also suggested, contrary to the Court of Appeal's ruling in KhorasandjanVBush1993, that only people with a proprietary interest in land had title to sue in nuisance.