The Weekly Law Reports
[2018] 1 WLR 249
Chancery Division
*Ravenscroft v Canal & River Trust
[2017] EWHC 1874 (Ch)
2017 May 22,
23,
24;
July 24
July 24
Asplin J
River— Statutory navigational authority— Extent of powers— Claimant mooring pleasure boat on river— No pleasure boat certificate in force in respect of boat— Authority removing boat and agreeing to release on payment of removal and storage charges and licence fee arrears— Whether boat moored on “main navigable channel” so as to require certificate— Whether unlawfully moored— Whether removal of boat breach of claimant’s Convention right to peaceful enjoyment of his possessions— Whether removal of boat and its release on payment of fees constituting levying of unlawful distress—
British Waterways Act 1971 (c xviii), ss 4, 5
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British Waterways Act 1983 (c ii), s 8
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt II, art 1
Ships’ names—
Three Wise Monkeys