The Weekly Law Reports
[2001] 3 WLR 613
Court of Appeal
British Waterways Board
v
Severn Trent Water Ltd
[2001] EWCA Civ 276
2001 Jan 22,
23;
March 2
March 2
Peter Gibson, Chadwick and Keene LJJ
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
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Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), s. 159