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Environment - From: 1970 To: 1979

This page lists 5 cases, and was prepared on 27 May 2018.


 
 Saddleworth Urban District Council v Aggregate and Sand Ltd; 1970 - (1970) 69 LGR 103

 
 Impress (Worcester) Ltd v Rees; QBD 1971 - [1971] 2 All ER 357

 
 Alphacell Ltd v Woodward; HL 3-May-1972 - [1972] All ER 475; [1972] AC 824; [1972] UKHL 4
 
Price v Cromack [1975] 1 WLR 988
1975

Lord Widgery CJ
Environment
The defendant maintained two lagoons on his land into which, pursuant to an agreement, the owners of adjoining land discharged effluent. The lagoons developed leaks which allowed the effluent to escape into the river. Held: The escape had not been caused by anything which the defendant had done. There was no "positive act" on his part. The effluent came onto the land by gravity and found its way into the stream by gravity "with no act on his part whatever:"
1 Citers


 
Cornelis Kramer And Others R-6/76; [1976] EUECJ R-6/76
14 Jul 1976
ECJ

Environment
Biological resources of the sea.
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