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…Admittedly the defendants were under a Statutory duty to approve or disapprove of these plans. Does a refusal to act whether malicious or not gives rise to a claim in damages?…

…As I understand this decision there is an action for damages for breach of Statutory duty causing injuries to a person for whose benefit the Statutory duty has been imposed.…

…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…

…Erskine May says: Breach of statutory duty to lay an instrument before parliament will not of itself invalidate the instrument though it may amount to a misdemeanour.”…