ROWLAND v. ENVIRONMENT AGENCY [2002] EWHC 2785 (Ch.)

[2003] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 427

CHANCERY DIVISION

Before Mr. Justice Lightman

Navigation - Public rights - Existence - Legitimate expectation - Dispute as to public rights of navigation on non-tidal part of river Thames - Whether PRN existing over Thames in 1885 could be extinguished - Whether doctrine of legitimate expectation entitled owner of riparian rights to extinguishment of PRN - Effect of Human Rights Convention - Thames Preservation Act, 1885, ss. 2, 5.