University of Manchester Library Mr Simpson had previously been Acting Deputy Librarian of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester until 1985 and subsequently university librarian of the Universities of London and Surrey. Mr Simpson remained until his retirement in December 2007. During the period 2004-07 a major refurbishment of the historic John Rylands Library in the centre of Manchester, together with the construction of new visitor centre, was completed, whilst the Library as a whole merged with the libraries of UMIST and the Manchester Business School to create The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester. Following Mr Simpson's retirement in 2007, Jan
Rylands v Fletcher been concerned that the reasonable use test, which appears in nuisance, is not applicable to cases brought under "Rylands". The first requirement under "Rylands" is that the defendant "for his own purposes brings onto land and collects and keeps there". In "Rylands", this was the keeping of water in a reservoir; other cases in England and Wales have illustrated what sort of material is considered. In "British Celanese v AH Hunt", the accumulation was of metal foil strips. "For his own purpose" is not understood to be "for his benefit", although that was what Blackburn was referring to at the