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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.…

…The plaintiff’s cause of action as pleaded in his plaint was based on negligence and in the alternative on alleged breach of statutory duty on the part of the defendant to provide the plaintiff with a safe place of work.…

…I have already set out the paragraphs in the plaint which I consider germane to this particular issue and while I am prepared to accept that the pleading in relation to breach of statutory duty could have been drawn better…

…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…

…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.…

…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.”…

…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…