The Weekly Law Reports
[2000] 3 WLR 1
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD
v.
SEVERN TRENT WATER LTD.
[Ch. 1997 B. No. 510]
1999 July 7,
8,
30;
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Arden J.
Water
— Sewerage
— Surface water
— Discharge into canal
— Sewerage undertaker having no express statutory power to discharge water in its pipes
— Whether power to discharge to be implied
— Whether incidental to existing pipe-laying power
—
Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56), s. 159