Public Health in UK Law

  • Anns v Merton London Borough Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 May 1977
    ... ... That was the Public Health Act 1936. I must refer to the relevant provisions ... 20 Section ... ...
  • British Waterways Board v Severn Trent Water Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 02 March 2001
    ... ... (a) to provide, improve and extend such a system of public sewers (whether inside its area or elsewhere) and so to cleanse and ... 291 , a decision of this court under the Public Health Act 1875. This was said to be the main plank in the argument of Mr. Beloff ... ...
  • Murphy v Brentwood District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1990
    ... ... resulting in there being a present or imminent danger to the health or safety of persons occupying it ... 6 As I read the speech of Lord ... , and does not appear to have been suggested in Anns , that the Public Health Act 1936, in particular Part n, manifests any intention to create ... ...
  • Dutton v Bognor Regis Urban District Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 December 1971
    ... ... of the bye-laws and of Sections 37, 6l, 63, 64 and 65 of the Public Health Act, 1936. Dated this 23rd day of October, 1961 ... ...
  • McFarlane v Tayside Health Board
    • House of Lords
    • 25 November 1999
    ... ... It could not be said that the pursuers could have suffered no loss worthy of compensation. He declined to consider whether public policy prevented the claim from being brought: that was not for the court ... 6 Lord McCluskey said: ... ...
  • Hyde Park Residence Ltd v Yelland
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 February 2000
    ... ... Act and second that publication was not unlawful as it was in the public interest ... 7 Those defences were pleaded ... to family life; (ii) injurious to public life, public health and safety or the administration of justice; (iii) incites or ... ...
  • R (on the application of Lumsdon and Others) v Legal Services Board
    • Supreme Court
    • 24 June 2015
    ... ... scheme is justified by an overriding reason relating to the public interest, and (c) the objective pursued cannot be attained by ... cases is illustrated by the judgment in R v Secretary of State for Health, Ex p British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd and Imperial Tobacco Ltd ... ...
  • M'Alister or Donoghue (Pauper) v Stevenson
    • House of Lords
    • 26 May 1932
    ... ... short of outrageous to make them responsible to members of the public for the condition of the contents of every bottle which issues from their ... care that the article is free from defect likely to cause injury to health. I do not think a more important problem has occupied your Lordships in ... ...
  • Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 04 December 2003
    ... ... adequate to cope with the volume of surface water entering the public drainage system in times of heavy rainfall. Overloaded surface water ... Section 15 of the Public Health Act 1875 obliged local authorities to make 'such sewers as may be ... ...
  • Stovin and Another v Norfolk County Council
    • House of Lords
    • 24 July 1996
    ... ... 5 This case arises at the interface of public and private law obligations: the liability of a public authority in tort ... Brentwood District Council [1991] 1 A.C. 398, 408 , public health measures were not intended to safeguard owners of buildings against ... ...
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