Posts Tagged ‘NABO’s Legal Challenge’

The Bill de Leie show

Friday, December 18th, 2009

We don’t normally lift from other websites but this, seen in the latest Towpath Talk letters page had me in stitches so I thought I’d share it with you all.

Has BRITISH WATERWAYS slipped its legal moorings?

WHAT in blue blazes was NABO’s legal affairs officer Geoffrey Robinson thinking of. By asserting that the very basis of the powers that British Waterways control of licensing and mooring are at odds with the law and possibly unenforceable he has given every druggie, alcoholic and general deadbeat on the canals carte blanche to moor anywhere, for as long as they want and without buying a licence.

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