The Weekly Law Reports
[2013] 1 WLR 2570
Court of Appeal
*Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd v United Utilities Water plc
Bridgewater Canal Co Ltd
v
Same
[2013] EWCA Civ 40
2012 Oct 9,
10,
11;
2013 Feb 7
Arden, Sullivan, Patten LJJ
Water— Sewerage— Discharge— Sewerage undertaker discharging sewer contents via outfalls on to third party property without owner’s consent pursuant to implied statutory power— Sewerage undertaker entering into statutory transfer scheme— Transferee continuing to discharge sewer contents via outfalls on to third party property without owner’s consent— Whether implied power surviving statutory transfer schemes— Whether subsequently revoked—
Water Act 1989 (c 15), s 4, Sch 2, para 2