The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 1 WLR 559
Chancery Division: Manchester
*Borwick Development Solutions Ltd
v
Clear Water Fisheries Ltd
[2019] EWHC 2272 (Ch)
2019 July 22, 23; 24
Judge Hodge QC sitting as a High Court judge
Animal— Fish— Right to possession— Claimant selling commercial fishery— Contract of sale not dealing with fish stocks— Claimant claiming ownership of fish stocks and bringing claim in conversion— Whether fish in commercial fishery continuing to be wild animals and therefore not subject to absolute property rights— Whether claimant having qualified property in fish per industriam— Whether such property passing on transfer of fishery— Whether claimant having possessory title on which to found conversion claim
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