000 01647cab a2200193 4500
001 ABS68730
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035 _a(Sirsi) u128907
041 _aeng
245 _aExpress Ltd T/A Express Dairies Distribution v Environment Agency
260 _c2005
490 _aWeekly Law Reports
_v[2005] 1 WLR 223-235(13)
520 _a[2004] EWHC 1710 (Admin), 15 July 2004. Asks when a landowner needs to carry out a pollution risk assessment for others' activities on it's land. EX had permitted a customer to take delivery of cream from an outside supplier without assessing the risks introduced by the customer's loading and unloading operations or insisting that they were carried out in a particular way. The customer caused cream during transfer to escape into a brook discolouring the water. The customer was convicted of polluting controlled waters contrary to the Water Resources Act 1991 s85(1), whereas EX was convicted for causing pollution due to its default contrary to s217(3). EX appealed. "Held": the customer's offence under s85(1) of the was due to EX's default; a landowner, who permits an operation on his land giving rise to a risk of pollution, is obliged to carry out a risk assessment and to respond to what that assessment reveals; under s85(1) polluting matter does not have to be either poisonous or noxious but only stained or tainted. Appeal dismissed
590 _aABS
650 _aEXPRESS LTD V ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
650 _aWATER RESOURCES ACT 1991 S85(1)
690 _aENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND CONSULTANCY-ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT-ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
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999 _c74856
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