Edwards v Metropolitan Water Board

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1922
Date1922
CourtCourt of Appeal
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16 cases
  • Reeves v Deane-Freeman
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal
    • February 2, 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......
  • Hampson v Department of Education and Science
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • December 2, 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......
  • Griffiths v Smith
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • December 12, 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, ......
  • Des Champs v. Conseil des écoles séparées catholiques de langue française de Prescott-Russell, [1999] 3 SCR 281
    • Canada
    • Supreme Court (Canada)
    • September 17, 1999
    ...a display or invite parents to attend it. Again, I think this immaterial. As Scrutton L.J. said in Edwards v. Metropolitan Water Board [[1922] 1 K.B. 291, at p. 306]: “Nor does it matter that the duty could have been carried out in another way”. . . . If the argument were sound the Public A......
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  • Preliminary Sections
    • Nigeria
    • DSC Publications Online Nigerian Supreme Court Cases. 1964 Preliminary Sections
    • November 11, 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......

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