The claimants sought damages for personal injury saying that the defendant had supplied unwholesome water.
Held: Although the water authority was under a statutory duty to supply wholesome water, it was not a duty that was owed to a defined limited class of the public. The duty was accordingly enforceable in various ways, but not by a private right of action.
Lord McCluskey
[2000] ScotCS 292, 2001 SLT 1205
Bailii
Scotland
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Cited – Morrison Sports Ltd and Others v Scottish Power SC 28-Jul-2010
A fire caused substantial damage to buildings. It arose from a ‘shim’ placed in a fuse box which then overheated. The parties disputed whose employee had inserted the shim. The Act under which the Regulations had been made was repealed and replaced . .
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Updated: 18 August 2021; Ref: scu.164032