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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.…

…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…

…In order to discharge its statutory duty of proving the saidcharge and particulars of the offence beyond reasonable doubt, theprosecution called 10 witnesses.…

…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…

…The fact that the appellant was represented by an advocate did not discharge the trial Magistrate from his statutory duty to the appellant.…

…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.”…