The Weekly Law Reports
[1972] 2 WLR 1320
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
ALPHACELL LTD. APPELLANTS AND WOODWARD RESPONDENT
1972 March 14,
15;
May 3
May 3
Lord Wilberforce, Viscount Dilhorne, Lord Pearson Lord Cross of Chelsea and Lord Salmon
River
— Pollution
— Causation
— Effluent in settling tanks
— Breakdown of pumping system
— Overflow into river
— No knowledge on part of owner of works that effluent overflowing
— No negligence
— Whether guilty of causing polluting matter to enter river
—
Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951 (14 & 15 Geo. 6, c. 64), s. 2(1)
Justices
— Case stated
— Practice
— Findings of fact
— Merely setting out evidence no substitute