Effluent in UK Law

  • National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 17 November 1994
    ...... the benefit of a consent granted by the National Rivers Authority pursuant to a direction of the Secretary of State to discharge sewage effluent into Hunsworth Beck subject to conditions as to the nature, volume and composition of the effluent discharged. Yorkshire Water Services was further ......
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd
    • Chancery Division
    • 15 June 2021
    ...... claim, MSC threatened to issue new proceedings in trespass, claiming damages for the unlawful discharge of inadequately treated sewage effluent from about half the total number of outfalls into the Canal (“the category B outfalls”). It is common ground that any such discharge only happens ......
  • British Waterways Board v Severn Trent Water Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 October 1999
    ...... (1) above to have regard —- (a) to its existing and likely future obligations to allow for the discharge of trade effluent into its public sewers; and (b) to the need to provide for the disposal of trade effluent which is so discharged. ......
  • Boots UK Ltd v Severn Trent Water Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 17 January 2018
    ...... Trent's entitlement to charge Boots on the basis that it did over the period 1996 to the present in relation to the discharge of trade effluent from Boots' property in Beeston, Nottingham (the “Property”). The answer to this question turns on the correct interpretation of the definition ......
  • MDW Holdings Ltd v James Robert Norvill
    • Chancery Division
    • 04 May 2021
    ...... 1991, GDE, as the occupier of trade premises (namely, the Site) in the area of DCWW as sewerage undertaker, was permitted to discharge trade effluent from the Site into DCWW's public sewers only with DCWW's consent; if it discharged trade effluent from the Site into the public sewers without such ......
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 2 of 1994)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 27 July 1994
    ......The indictment contained three counts alleging that the defendant polluted the river Lee by effluent from a sewage works, contrary to section 107 of the Water Act 1989. . 3 The case came before Popplewell J at Luton Crown Court. He was ......
  • Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1994)
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 January 1995
    ......The first respondents had the benefit of a "trade effluent disposal licence" (the Licence) granted to them by the second respondents to dispose of their toxic liquors into the second respondents' sewerage ......
  • William Moase Giles John Eyre Lomas (Applicants) Secretary of State for the Environment, and Another (First Respondent) South West Water Ltd (Second Respondent)
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 30 September 1999
    ......Bathing Waters Directive". The conclusion is then reflected in the Environment Agency Policy Statement for Consent for Sewage Effluent Discharges affecting Bathing Waters (p.187). Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Statement recognise the mandatory nature of the water quality standards ......
  • Bridge House (Reigate Hill) Ltd (Appellant) Robert Ernest Hinder (H. M. Inspector of Taxes) (Respondent)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 May 1971
    ...... . 12 The waste matter which comes from the company's restaurant is clearly "trade effluent": but were these sewage pipes "to be used for the treatment of trade effluents"? At first I was inclined to think they were. I thought that ......
  • R v Ettrick Trout Company Ltd and William Baxter
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 19 October 1993
    ...... pleaded guilty (changing their plea following the Recorder's ruling) to contravening the conditions of a consent to discharge trade effluent (that being the third count of the indictment). It was ordered that count 1, causing trade effluent to be discharged into controlled water, and count ......
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