GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CHAMBER OF SHIPPING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

(1937) 57 Ll.L.Rep. 185

COURT OF APPEAL.

Before Lord Wright (Master of the Rolls), Lord Justice Romer and Lord Justice Scott.

Railways-Exceptional rates-Application by railway company to Railway Rates Tribunal for consent to the granting of exceptional rates for grain from West of England docks to Cornish ports- Objection by Chamber of Shipping (on behalf of coastal shipping) that proposed rates "if granted would place coastal carriers at an undue and unfair disadvantage" and "that the proposed exceptional rates, if granted, would by reason of their prejudicial effect upon the interests of coastwise shipping be undesirable in the national interest"-Matters to be considered by Tribunal on such application-Appeal by Chamber of Shipping from decision of Railway Rates Tribunal that the matters raised in objection were not relevant to the granting by Tribunal of the railway company's application for exceptional rates-Railways Act, 1921, Sects. 36, 37, 38, 39, 58-Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, Sect. 39.