The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 1 WLR 1229
Chancery Division
*Brendon International Ltd v Water Plus Ltd and another
[2022] EWHC 3321 (Ch)
2022 Sept 27, 28, 29; Dec 20
Judge Cadwallader sitting as a High Court judge
Water— Sewerage— Right to charge— Claimant paying sums charged by defendants for surface water and highway drainage services— Claimant subsequently claiming repayment of such sums on ground defendants having no entitlement to charge for services— Whether sewer into which drainage occurring private or public— Whether claimant or defendant bearing evidential burden as to status of sewer—
Water Industry Act 1991 (c 56), s 219(1)