Computation of Time in UK Law

Leading Cases
  • County Leasing Asset Management Ltd and Others v Mark Glenn Hawkes
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 December 2015

    In my judgment, his decision on the discretion issue was part of the ratio decidendi, for two reasons. First, as I have said, the case had proceeded before the judge on the basis of a concession that the primary limitation period had been extended so as to expire during the period of the company's dissolution.

    The limitation regime exists mainly to serve the public interest in the prohibition of stale claims.

    A conclusion that there was only a possibility that Mr. Valentine had misconducted himself is in my judgment a wholly inadequate basis upon which to found a conclusion that a limitation direction in favour of the Company or its assignee should be made. A party seeking to discharge the burden of showing why it would be just to enable it (or him) to avoid the consequences of the limitation regime must do better than that. The court is concerned with probabilities, not possibilities.

  • AXA General Insurance Company Ltd v Lord Advocate
    • Supreme Court (Scotland)
    • 12 October 2011

    A requirement that the applicant demonstrate an interest in the matter complained of will not however operate satisfactorily if it is applied in the same way in all contexts. In some contexts, it is appropriate to require an applicant for judicial review to demonstrate that he has a particular interest in the matter complained of: the type of interest which is relevant, and therefore required in order to have standing, will depend upon the particular context.

  • Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
    • Privy Council
    • 12 September 2000

    In their Lordships' view when Jamaica acceded to the American Convention and to the International Covenant and allowed individual petitions the petitioner became entitled under the protection of the law provision in section 13 to complete the human rights petition procedure and to obtain the reports of the human rights bodies for the Jamaican Privy Council to consider before it dealt with the application for mercy and to the staying of the execution until those reports had been received and considered.

  • Trevor Nathaniel Pennerman Fisher v The Minister of Public Safety and Immigration and Others
    • Privy Council
    • 05 October 1998

    In Pratt and Morgan Lord Griffiths, delivering the judgment of the Judicial Committee, said at pages 28-29 that the purpose of section 17(2) of the Jamaican Constitution, which is mutatis mutandis in the same terms as Article 17(2) of the Constitution of The Bahamas, was to preserve all descriptions of punishment lawful immediately before independence and to prevent them from being attacked under section 17(1) as inhuman or degrading forms of punishment or treatment.

    It seems to us that the fact that the Government have participated in this procedure - they furnished the information requested by the I.A.C.H.R. after the Commission's receipt of Fisher's application, they responded to their initial comments and recommendations and they presented a statement of their position at the Friendly Settlement Meeting in Washington - has provided Fisher with a legitimate expectation that, if the I.A.C.H.R. were to recommend against the carrying out of the death sentence, their views would be considered before the final decision is taken as to whether or not he is to be executed.

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Legislation
  • Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Wednesday January 01, 1879
    ... ... under this Act unless it be first proved that the book was at the time of the making of the entry one of the ordinary books of the bank, and that ... 11: Computation of time ... Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any bank holiday ... ...
  • Inebriates Act 1898
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Saturday January 01, 1898
  • Bankruptcy Act 1883
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Monday January 01, 1883
    ... ... within the time limited in that behalf by the order giving ... leave to effect the ... of the fact so certified ... Computation of time. 141 Computation of time ... (1.) Where by this Act any ... ...
  • Building Safety Act 2022
    • UK Non-devolved
    • Saturday January 01, 2022
    ... ... ) The regulator may at any time make proposals to the Secretary of State for the making of regulations ... In the computation of a period of time specified in subsection (1) or (2), there is to be ... ...
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Books & Journal Articles
  • Index
    • Contents
    • The Single Family Court: a Practitioner's Handbook - 2nd Edition
    • Gillian Geddes/Richard Budworth
    • 557-569
    ... ... 86 notice of appeal, grounds in 87 permission to appeal 87 time for appealing 87–88 generally 3–4 grounds, notice to include 394 ... proceedings, good practice 43 case management powers 312–313 computation of time 311–312 contempt of court, applications and proceedings as to ... ...
  • Recent Legal Decisions affecting Public Administration
    • No. 14-1, January 1936
    • Public Administration
    ... ... 106 of the Housing Act, 1925, were served at the same time by sending to the lessee and occupier both notices in one ... , but shall for all purposes be excluded in the computation of time hereinbefore mentioned. A poor person having become ... ...
  • Statutes
    • No. 1-3, December 1937
    • The Modern Law Review
    ... ... the types of defects which must have existed at the time of the marriage without the knowledge of the petitioner in ... to a body of complicated case law with respect to computation of time. but, in general, the desertion clause in conjunction ... ...
  • Creation of Easements and Profits
    • Part I. Easements and profits à prendre
    • Restrictions on the Use of Land
    • William Webster/Robert Weatherley
    • 9-18
    ... ... to the purpose for which the dominant land was being used at the time of the grant. 6 It is open to debate whether an easement of necessity will ... is being prosecuted, is to be deducted from the relevant computation of time. Section 8 (which applies only to easements of way or other ... ...
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Law Firm Commentaries
  • Briefing Note: Patent Box - March 2013
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... The computation of profits to which the rate applies will exclude certain costs and ... The time limit for making the election is the last day on which an amendment can be ... ...
  • Simplification Of UK Partnership Tax Reporting For Investment Fund Partnerships
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... could not identify all of its "indirect partners" to provide computation statements on four bases covering UK resident individuals and companies ... These changes are now being applied for the first time in partnership returns being prepared for 31 January for the tax year ... ...
  • Weekly Tax Update - 15 May 2017
    • Mondaq UK
    ... ... - capital allowances and interest relief Capital gains tax - computation of gain on disposal of properties 3 Trusts, estates and IHT ... FTT ... publication, which is based on material in the public domain at the time of issue. However, the publication is written in general terms for ... ...
  • Share Buybacks - New Opportunities for Corporate Investors, Including Life Companies
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    ... ... shares by a corporate investor and so is not included in the computation of chargeable gains ... This has the effect of reducing the chargeable ... At the same time, SFOL sold the other half of its shareholding in CLO to a third party, ... ...
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