Inordinate and Inexcusable Delay in UK Law

  • Birkett v James
    • House of Lords
    • 25 Mayo 1977
    ... ... That, and the consequent delay and expense which appeals in interlocutory ... ( a ) that there has been inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the ... ...
  • Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 Enero 1968
    ... ... 706 ... We said; "Delay in these cases is much to be deplored. It is the ... : When the delay is prolonged and inexcusable, and is such as to do grave injustice to one side ... than if he had sought, despite the inordinate delay, to establish liability against the ... ...
  • Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company Ltd v L'Office Cherifien des Phosphates and Unitramp SA
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Diciembre 1993
    ... ... (a) that there has been an inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the claimant ... ...
  • Grovit and Others v Doctor and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Abril 1997
    ... ... court; or (2)(a) that there has been inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the ... ...
  • Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik v South India Shipping Corporation Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Enero 1981
    ... ... your Lordships are concerned only with the delay at the second stage from January 1972 to April, ... of the detailed points of claim was so inordinate and inexcusable and had given rise to so ... ...
  • Biss v Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Area Health Authority (Teaching)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 Noviembre 1977
    ... ... was the issue of the writ: and the crucial delay was the delay since the issue of the writ. He ... delay since the writ must have been inordinate and inexcusable: and that delay must have caused ... ...
  • Department of Transport v Chris Smaller (Transport) Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Marzo 1989
    ... ... that the plaintiffs had been guilty of inordinate and inexcusable delay for a period of 13 months ... ...
  • Summers v Fairclough Homes Ltd
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 Junio 2012
    ... ... of prosecution, not only in cases of inordinate and inexcusable delay which caused prejudice to ... ...
  • Costellow v Somerset County Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 09 Noviembre 1992
    ... ... sought to explain their reasons for delay in serving the statement of claim, but the ... said, that the party guilty of inexcusable delay in complying with the rules, rather than ... is not merely inexcusable but also inordinate and, more pertinently to this appeal, such as to ... ...
  • Arbuthnot Latham Bank Ltd v Trafalgar Holdings Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 Diciembre 1997
    ... ... out where there has been considerable delay if: (i) the cause of action ... concluded that there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay. In their evidence, the ... ...
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