In a petition under the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts to have the magistrates of certain burghs ordained to abstain from ‘causing to fall or flow, or knowingly permitting to fall or flow or to be carried, into certain streams any solid or liquid sewage matter, held that it was irrelevant to aver in defence that the streams were so polluted as to be merely sewers into which it could not possibly be an offence to put sewage.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), Earl of Halsbury, Lord James, Lord Atkinson, Lord Collins, and Lord Shaw
Citations:
[1910] UKHL 508, 47 SLR 508
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Jurisdiction:
Scotland
Environment
Updated: 25 April 2022; Ref: scu.619790
