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…In that case Mr Blackburn who lived in London with his wife who was a ratepayer, applied successfully for an order of prohibition against the council to stop them acting in breach of their statutory duty to prevent the exhibition…

…He also relied on the case in his submission that the Respondent is the sole supplier of electrical energy hence had the statutory duty of ensuring safe electrical installations thus had to exercise high degree of vigilance…

…He also relied on the case in his submission that the Respondent is the sole supplier of electrical energy hence had the statutory duty of ensuring safe electrical installations thus had to exercise high degree of vigilance…

…That being so, when the application for consent was placed before the Board, it had both the power and the statutory duty to order attendance of the applicant or of any person interested in or affected by that application…

…held by the Court of Appeal, reversing the judge, that although the proposed plaintiff knew that he was suffering from silicosis in July, 1966, the fact that his silicosis was attributable to the negligence of or breach of statutory…

…duty of the proposed defendants was a material fact of a decisive character unknown to him until July 1967.…

…The effect of this section must be that the 2nd respondent was under a statutory duty to hold its annual meeting somewhere after 30th June and in any case on or before the 15th August, 1993, and that was a duty which it could…