A Farmer's Choice?: Legal Liability of Farmers Growing Crops

Abstract

A.1 The purpose of the paper is to analyse the private law liability of farmers growing crops. The approach taken in this paper is a legal approach... A.2 Section 2 of the paper considers the importance of the characterisation of the damage which a plaintiff suffers in determining liability in both negligence and private nuisance... A.3 The conclusions of this paper are that, under the existing law of negligence and private nuisance, the chances of a successful action against a farmer growing a crop by a neighbour in most cases are small...