Water Pollution in UK Law
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Cambridge Water Company v Eastern Counties Leather
...... quantities would produce any sensible effect upon water taken down-catchment, or would otherwise be material or deserve the description of pollution. I understand the position to have been that any spillage would have been expected to evaporate rapidly in the air, and would not have been expected ......
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Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority
...... waste to enter controlled waters" contrary to section 85(1) of the Water Resources Act 1991. "Controlled waters" are defined in section 104(1)(c) ... not proved that he took any other actions which resulted in the pollution." . 8 Before your Lordships, Mr. Philpott for ......
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Alphacell Ltd v Woodward
...... the Appellants have been convicted is the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act, 1951. The relevant words are "if he causes or knowingly permits to ...The Appellants abstract water, pass it through their works where it becomes polluted, conduct it to a ......
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Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd
...... v United Kingdom Application No 36022/97, 8 July 2003, paragraph 97, in the context of a complaint under article 8 about environmental pollution by aircraft noise resulting from night flights at Heathrow Airport, the Grand Chamber took the opportunity once again to stress the subsidiary role ......
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Hunter v Canary Wharf Ltd
......She was injured by the falling of a bracket supporting a water tank which had been dislodged by vibrations caused by an engine worked by ... that his hedges, trees and shrubs were being damaged by pollution from the defendants' copper smelting works a mile and a half away. The ......
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Socony Mobil Oil Company Inc. v West of England Ship Owners Mutual Insurance Association (London) Ltd (No 2) (Padre Island)
...... the ship developed serious leakage resulting in the entry of sea water into certain of her cargo holds and other spaces. A distress call was sent ... (apart from special cases, such as the Merchant Shipping (Oil Pollution) Act 1971) that shipowners should be compulsorily insured against ......
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R Falmouth and Truro Port Health Authority, ex parte South West Water Ltd
......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 ......
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R v Simon Kennedy
...... not cause you to do it, in the sense in which one causes a kettle of water to boil by putting it on the stove. Your volitional act is regarded ... provision imposing strict criminal liability on those who cause pollution of controlled waters. Lord Hoffmann made clear that (p 29E-F) common sense ......
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Transco Plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
......The block was supplied with water for the domestic use of those living there, as statute has long required. ... discharge of water (section 209 of the Water Industry Act 1991) pollution by the escape of waste (section 73(6) of the Environmental Protection Act ......
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Harrow London Borough Council v Qazi
......; to measures of coercion such as cutting off the electricity or water supply; to such abominations as children being required to report upon the ... applicants in that case was said to have arisen because of the pollution of the area by dust caused by building works in the Docklands area. Their ......
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