Boater Nigel Moore has won an appeal over his right to moor on a length of the former River Brent incorporated into the Grand Union at Brentford. An earlier case having already decided that the odd legal status as a semi-tidal waterway predating the canal and retaining a public right of navigation meant that the then British Waterways could not remove a boat for having no licence, BW claimed it could still do so if it was moored there with no specific legal authority. The Appeal has ruled that if not causing a nuisance, obstructing the navigation or moored without permission of anyone claiming ownership of the bed, then the vessel is not moored 'without lawful authority' and BW had no such power.
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