Wychavon District Council v National Rivers Authority
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1992 |
| Court | Divisional Court |
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5 cases
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National Rivers Authority v Yorkshire Water Services Ltd
...Authority that in decisions in Price v. Cromack [1975] 1 W.L.R. 988 and in Wychavon District Council v. National Rivers Authority [1993] 1 W.L.R. 125, the law had taken a wrong turning by insisting on a positive act by the accused as an essential prerequisite for a successful prosecution ba......
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Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority
...by gravity "with no act on his part whatever:" see p. 994. The other case is Wychavon District Council v. National Rivers Authority [1993] 1 W.L.R. 125. The council maintained the sewage system in its district as agent for the statutory authority, the Severn Trent Water Authority. It operat......
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Attorney General's Reference (No. 1 of 1994)
...to me to show that this was not a case in which a conviction on the charge was possible in law". 38 In Wychavon District Council v NRA [1993] 1 WLR 125, the Council were convicted of an offence under section 107(1) of the 1989 Act in the following circumstances. A pollution control officer ......
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Empress Car Company (Abertillery) Ltd v National Rivers Authority (Now, the Environment Agency)
...Rivers Authority that in decisions in Price v Cromack [1975] 1 WLR 988 and in Wychavon District Council v National Rivers Authority [1993] 1 WLR 125, the law had taken a wrong turning by insisting on a positive act by a Defendant as an essential pre-requisite for a successful prosecution ba......
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1 books & journal articles
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Doing Justice to the Environment
...doctrine of causation as45 Above n. 44 at 835.46 Price v Cromack [1975] 1 WLR 988; Wychavon District Council vNational RiversAuthority [1993] 1 WLR 125; National Rivers Authority vWelsh Development Agency[1993] Env LR 407.47 [1999] 2 AC 22.48 Ibid. at 29 et seq.; cited in R vWilliams [2010]......