MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL COMPANY v. MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND CIVIL AVIATION AND THE UPPER MERSEY NAVIGATION COMMISSIONERS.

[1958] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 81

COURT OF APPEAL.

Before Lord Evershed (Master of the Rolls), Lord Justice Romer and Lord Justice Ormerod.

Inland waterway - Transport charges - Revision of charges - Application for declaration that charges were not charges which the undertakers were authorized to demand in pursuance of any statutory provision and that Order revising charges was ultra vires - Meaning of "charges" - Manchester Ship Canal Act, 1893, Sect. 35 - Transport Charges &c. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1954, Sect. 6 - Upper Mersey Navigation (Revision of Charges) Order, 1956. Costs - Construction of statutes - Submission that, all parties being public bodies, there should be no order as to costs.