Impress (Worcester) Ltd v Rees
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1971 |
| Year | 1971 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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5 cases
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Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority
...who discharged the iso-octanol. And in Alphacell Ltd. v. Woodward [1972] A.C. 824, 835, Lord Wilberforce said with reference to Impress (Worcester) Ltd. v. Rees [1971] 2 All E.R. 357, which I shall discuss later, that: "it should not be regarded as a decision that in every case the act of a......
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National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd
...as, for example, where the discharge resulted from the unauthorised act of a trespasser as illustrated by the circumstances in Impress (Worcester) Ltd. v. Rees [1971] 2 All E.R. 357, but in the circumstances referred to where the whole discharge resulted from effluent the sewage undertaker ......
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Alphacell Ltd v Woodward
...owner. The conclusion that the Railway Company had not caused it to flow was, I should have thought, inevitable. The second is Impress (Worcester) Ltd. v. Rees [1971] 2 All E.R. 357. The Appellants had placed a fuel oil tank near, though not adjacent, to the River Severn. The oil escaped t......
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Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority (Now, the Environment Agency)
...says the Appellant, lead to the conclusion that the Appellants ought to have been acquitted. The first of these decisions is Impress (Worcester) Ltd v Rees [1971] 2 All ER 357. The facts in that case as found by the Justices were that on 16.10.69 a considerable quantity of fuel oil escaped ......
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