Pollution in UK Law

  • British Waterways Board v Severn Trent Water Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 Marzo 2001
    ... ... It can do this by discharge into rivers or the sea (provided that it does not cause pollution or offend environmental controls), by discharge onto its own land (and I have already noted the compulsory purchase power conferred by s. 155 subject ... ...
  • Alphacell Ltd v Woodward
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Mayo 1972
    ... ... 1 The enactment under which the Appellants have been convicted is the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act, 1951. The relevant words are "if he causes or knowingly permits to enter a stream any poisonous, noxious or "polluting matter" ... 2 The ... ...
  • Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority
    • House of Lords
    • 05 Febrero 1998
    ... ... as a result of an action by a third party; and It is not proved that he took any other actions which resulted in the pollution." ... 8 Before your Lordships, Mr. Philpott for the company repeated his submission that the cause of the escape was ... ...
  • R (Edwards) v Environment Agency (No. 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Abril 2008
    ... ... Authorisation was granted in 1999 and the plant began commissioning in the following year. In 2000 a new system of pollution control was introduced by the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2000/1973 ("the Regulations"). These ... ...
  • BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and Others v Neuberger Berman Europe Ltd (on behalf of Sealink Funding Ltd) and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 29 Abril 2015
    ... ... listed Directives, not all directly relevant to nitrogen dioxide emissions (para 2), and, secondly, information on – "all air pollution abatement measures that have been considered at appropriate local, regional or national level for implementation in connection with the attainment of ... ...
  • Blewett v Derbyshire Waste Ltd
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 07 Noviembre 2003
    ... ... If planning permission were granted, I would expect the applicants to undertake a health risk assessment as part of the Integrated Pollution and Prevention Control (IPPC) application process for a waste management licence. Any application would be scrutinised by our environmental ... ...
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Junio 2022
    ... ... in improvements to sewerage infrastructure, referring to the fact that although there was environmental regulation through the Control of Pollution Act 1974 , the bodies charged with regulating discharges were the regional water authorities who were themselves operating the sewerage system, so ... ...
  • Staffordshire Area Health Authority v South Staffordshire Waterworks Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 Mayo 1978
    ... ... , of course, are relevant, which the parties will have to consider, such as the question of whether it wasever practical after the typhoid pollution in 1928 for the hospital to use this well again. Those are matters relevant to negotiation. If successful negotiation is not feasible, I would agree ... ...
  • R Falmouth and Truro Port Health Authority, ex parte South West Water Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Abril 2000
    ... ... Amongst the various functions transferred to it by s.2 of that Act were the functions of the control of pollution of water resources under Part III of the Water Resources Act 1991 which previously had been exercised by the National Rivers Authority. The principal ... ...
  • David Edwards Lilian Pallikaropoulos (Appellants) 1) The Environment Agency and Others (Respondents) Cemex Uk Cement Ltd (Formerly Rugby Ltd) (Interested Party)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 Julio 2006
    ... ... ("the Agency"), the first Respondent, to Rugby Limited, now Cemex UK Cement Ltd, the Interested Party, pursuant to regulation 10 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1973) ("the PPC Regulations") for the continued operation of its cement plant in ... ...
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