John Murphy is a reader at the law school at the University of Manchester and specialises in the field of tort law. He is one of the editors of the leading practitioner work on tort "Clerk and Lindsell on Torts."

This new statement of ^iThe Law of Nuisance^r by John Murphy is a welcome addition to English law library shelves. In recent years the volume of case law in the English courts has grown significantly. Murphy's clear, logically-structured text charts these developments and integrates them with the underlying conceptual framework of nuisance.

• PART I: THE DOMAIN OF NUISANCE LAW ; 1. The Domain of Nuisance Law ; PART II: THE LAW OF PRIVATE NUISANCE ; 2. Essentials and the Nature of Liability in Private Nuisance ; 3. The Interests Protected by Private Nuisance ; 4. Parties to a Private Nuisance Action ; 5. Defences to an Action for Private Nuisance ; 6. Remedies for Private Nuisance ; PART III: PUBLIC NUISANCE AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT ; 7. Public Nuisance ; 8. Statutory Nuisances ; APPENDIX ; Selected Excerpts from Part III of the Environmental Protection Act