Durrant v Branksome Urban District Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1897
Year1897
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 2 d3 Julho d3 2014
    ...ground that such a right existed at least until 1989 and was the basis on which the industry operated for many years. In Durrant v Branksome Urban District Council [1897] 2 Ch 291 , the Court of Appeal held that a right to discharge surface water and treated effluent into private watercou......
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 15 d1 Fevereiro d1 2016
    ...of this implication is not section 30 of the Public Health Act 1936, whose statutory predecessor was the basis of the decision in [ Durrant v Branksome UDC [1897] 2 Ch 291], but section 116 of the 1991 Act viewed against the background of the general duties of sewerage undertakers under the......
  • Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 d4 Fevereiro d4 2013
    ...( [2001] Ch 32). In BWB, which I shall consider further below, this court distinguished the decision of this court in Durrant v Branksome Urban District Council [1897] 2 Ch 291. In that case, this court held that sewerage undertakers had the implied right of discharge by implication into t......
  • The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 14 d2 Fevereiro d2 2012
    ...Act. 13 Neither the 1875 Act nor that of 1936 expressly empowered local authorities to discharge any water. In Durrant v Branksome UDC [1897] 2 Ch 291, however, such a power was held to be implicit in the legislation. At first instance, North J (at 295) considered that section 17 of the 187......
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