Edwards v Metropolitan Water Board

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1922
Date1922
CourtCourt of Appeal

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19 cases
  • Hampson v Department of Education and Science
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 2 December 1988
    ...was no need to hold a display or invite parents to attend it. Again, I think this immaterial. As Scrutton L.J. said in Edwards v. Metropolitan Water Board: 'Nor does it matter that the duty could have been carried out in another way,' a proposition in support of which he cited Edwards v. St......
  • Reeves v Deane-Freeman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • 2 February 1953
    ...in the execution of any such Act, duty, or authority" unless it has been begun, so-and-so, I observe that in the case of Edwards v. Metropolitan Water Board, to which just a casual reference was made in the course of the argument ( 1922, 1 King's Bench, at page 303) Lord Justice Scrutton, w......
  • Griffiths v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 12 December 1940
    ...case to have accepted as correct. To give a single additional instance, the well-known case of ( Edwards v. Metropolitan Water Board 1922, 1 K.B. 291) seems to me in point, and it was approved by Lord Atkinson in this House in Harnett v. Fisher, 1927, A.C. 573 at p. 592. In Edwards' case, ......
  • Scammell (G.) & Nephew v Hurley
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • Invalid date
    ... ... Lighting Act, 1882 , and the Provisional Order granted by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts to the Whitechapel Board of ... Southend Corporation F18 and Edwards v. Metropolitan Water Board F19 , and I think the acts or defaults in this ... ...
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1 books & journal articles
  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1964 Preliminary Sections
    • 11 November 2022
    ...1 All N.L.R. 92. 83 Edu v. C.O.P., 14 W.A.C.A. 163 and 275 Edward v. Alan Brown (1964) 3 C.L. 79 158 Edward v. Metropolitan Water Board (1922) 1 K.B. 291, 302. 53 Egan v. Attorney-General (1931) A.C.113; 100 L.J. Ch. 19; (2). 168 Ejukolem v. Police (1952) 14 W.A.C.A. 161 143 Ekeleme v. Ugwu......