Inordinate Delay in UK Law
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Birkett v James
... ... That, and the consequent delay and expense which appeals in interlocutory matters would involve, is also ... (2) ( a ) that there has been inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the plaintiff or his lawyers, and ... ...
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Allen v Sir Alfred McAlpine & Sons Ltd
... ... Batger & Co. Ltd. 1967, 1 Weekly Law Reports, p. 706 ... We said; "Delay in these cases is much to be deplored. It is the duty of the plaintiff's ... more advantageous position than if he had sought, despite the inordinate delay, to establish liability against the defendant in the action which ... ...
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Securum Finance Ltd v Ashton and another
... ... which have themselves been struck out (whether on grounds of delay or on other grounds) is a question which I shall have to address later in ... of the process of the court; or (2) (a) that there has been inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the plaintiff or his lawyers, and (b) ... ...
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Grovit and Others v Doctor and Others
... ... of the process of the court; or (2)(a) that there has been inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the plaintiff or his lawyers, and (b) ... ...
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Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik v South India Shipping Corporation Ltd
... ... , common ground that your Lordships are concerned only with the delay at the second stage from January 1972 to April, 1977, and in particular ... than four years later, of the detailed points of claim was so inordinate and inexcusable and had given rise to so substantial a risk that a fair ... ...
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Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company Ltd v L'Office Cherifien des Phosphates and Unitramp SA
... ... are: (a) that there has been an inordinate and inexcusable delay on the part of the claimant in pursuing the claim, ... ...
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Dyer v Watson and Another; HM Advocate v K
... ... It was claimed that there had been such delay in bringing proceedings against them as to breach the reasonable time ... It may, of course, be applicable where by reason of inordinate delay a defendant is prejudiced in the deployment of his defence. But its ... ...
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Arbuthnot Latham Bank Ltd v Trafalgar Holdings Ltd
... ... of a Court striking an action out where there has been considerable delay if: (i) the cause of action relied upon by the plaintiff ... judgment, Sir Ronald Waterhouse concluded that there had been inordinate and inexcusable delay. In their evidence, the plaintiffs explained the ... ...
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
... ... 8932) gave the average delay in 1950 as six weeks if there was an appeal and three weeks if there was ... and comment upon the course of events that has resulted in the inordinate delay that has occurred in this case ... 14 The murder was committed on ... ...
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Boolell v The State
... ... The appeal was founded on the very long delay which took place between the date when the first statement under caution ... It may, of course, be applicable where by reason of inordinate delay a defendant is prejudiced in the deployment of his defence. But its ... ...
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