The Weekly Law Reports
[2014] 1 WLR 2576
Supreme Court
*Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd v United Utilities Water plc (Canal & River Trust and others intervening)
Bridgewater Canal Co Ltd v Same (Same intervening)
[2014] UKSC 40
2014 May 6,
7;
July 2
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury PSC, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Sumption, Lord Hughes, Lord Toulson JJSC
Water— Sewerage— Discharge— Implied statutory power to discharge surface water and treated effluent from public sewers into private watercourses without owners’ consent— Sewerage functions transferred to commercial sewerage undertakers— Sewerage undertaker continuing to discharge into private watercourses without owners’ consent— Whether implied power continuing under new statutory regime— Whether authorising discharge from future sewage outfalls or only those in use when Act came into force—
Water Act 1989 (c 15), s 4, Sch 2, para 2
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Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), ss 94, 106, 116