Jones v Llanrwst Urban Council

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1911
Year1911
CourtChancery Division
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25 cases
  • RHM Bakeries (Northern) v Commissioners of Customs and Excise
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 January 1985
    ...relief which could only be obtained by prerogative writ of mandamus" (see Parker J. in Jones v. Llanrwst Urban District CouncilELR [1911] 1 Ch. 393 at p. 405). Thirdly, it has all the aroma of a nonfeasance case, and I observe that it was so treated in the argument submitted to the Court of......
  • British Waterways Board v Severn Trent Water Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 13 October 1999
    ...an implied power existed. He points out that subsequent case law has emphasised the importance of the proviso: see Jones v. Llanrwst UDC [1911] 1 Ch 393, 411; Hesketh v. Birmingham Corporation [1924] 1 KB 260, 266–267, 272; Pride of Derby v. British Celanese [1953] Ch 149,168. The importanc......
  • Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 February 2002
    ...unless it had been created by statute, and the duty so created is to the public…" 70 In Jones v Llanrwst Urban District Council [1911] 1 Ch 393 Parker J. distinguished Glossop in holding a local authority responsible for discharging sewage into a stream. He held that the plaintiff was comp......
  • HSBC Rail (UK) Ltd v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd (Formerly Railtrack Plc)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 25 November 2005
    ...Petch (1858) 5 CBNS 504 per Cockburn CJ, Williams, Willes and Byles JJ, followed in Mayfair Property Co v Johnston [1894] 1 Ch 508 and Jones v Llanrwst UDC [1911] 1 Ch 393. 21 Mears v London and South Western Railway Co (1862) 11 CBNS 850 was, however, a case of damage to a bailed chattel......
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