Posts Tagged ‘Paul Davies’
Sunday, December 14th, 2014
Usually when CRT wins a Section 8 case it publishes the judgement (if there is one) on its web site. However, it made an exception in the case it won against Geoffrey Mayers, the reason being that this judgement confirms that it would be unlawful for CRT to set a minimum distance that continuous cruisers must travel to comply with the law. The Judge also stated that a boat with a home mooring does not have to actually use its mooring, something else that CRT would prefer us not to know about.
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Tags: 14 day rule, continuous cruising, Geoffrey Mayers, liveaboards, Paul Davies, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2014
On 11th November CRT published the second of four planned three-monthly reports on the K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, K&A Interim 12-month Local Plan, liveaboards, Matthew Symonds, Paul Davies, Section 17, Sheila Shaw, Waterways Act 1995
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Monday, December 9th, 2013
Three boaters spoke to Richard Parry, CRT’s Chief Executive, when he visited Crofton last Wednesday. One of the most significant things that they learnt was that Mr Parry will personally scrutinise every decision to take boaters to court from January.
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Tags: bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, CRT Legal Department, enforcement, Nigel Johnson, Paul Davies, Richard Parry, Sally Ash, Section 8
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Saturday, July 20th, 2013
An enforcement officer on the Grand Union Canal recently emailed a boater without a home mooring telling them how far they should travel in order to comply with s.17 3 c ii of the 1995 British Waterways Act. He said “… if your craft is seen to be travelling in excess of 17km, moving from place to place every 14 days (unless local restrictions apply) turning around to genuinely cruise in the opposite direction there should be no issues”.
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Tags: continuous cruising, enforcement, Paul Davies, Sally Ash, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
BW’s Boating Projects report for May 2011 shows that BW is unsure whether people will pay overstaying charges. When Head of Boating Sally Ash reported on the progress of BW’s trial of “Extended stay charging” on the visitor moorings at Thrupp, she wrote: “Pertinent questions: WILL people pay? Are they more likely to pay if we offer pay-by-mobile”. This uncertainty demonstrates that the entire system of overstaying charges is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
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Tags: enforcement, FOI request, overstaying charges, Paul Davies, Sally Ash
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Friday, October 14th, 2011
BW’s revised Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring follows a meeting with user groups on 23 June. BW has stated that there will be no further consultation or review of this guidance. Guidance for Boaters Without a Home Mooring differs from the draft revision published by BW in April following the judgement in the BW v Davies case.
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Tags: 14 day rule, bona fide navigation, continuous cruising, Paul Davies, Section 17, Waterways Act 1995
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Christopher Stoner make much use of a case Moore vs British Waterways Board to define their view of ‘bona-fide for navigation’.
We notice that this case is now in the process of appeal;
link here
And so should add an interesting twist or two.
Tags: British Waterways, moore v bw, Paul Davies
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
BW have recently amended their Guidance for Continuous Cruisers
Announced here
and published here
BW’s covering statement in the press release;
“The existing 2004 ‘mooring guidance for continuous cruisers’ has been refined to be more easily understood and to reflect the Judgment in the case of British Waterways v Davies, in which the Court found that moving up and down within a 10 mile stretch of the Kennet & Avon Canal with no home mooring did not amount to bona fide navigation.”
Seems to be a malicious, though not unexpected, rewriting of Judge O’Malley’s judgement which specifically states that this is not the case.
Tags: continuous cruiser, continuous cruising, Moorings Guidance for Continuous Crusiers, Paul Davies, Sally Ash
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