Postal Rule in UK Law

  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 July 1977
    ... ... endeavouring to procure any person wilfully to detain or delay any postal package in the course of transmission between England and Wales and the ... message be struck out under the Rules of the Supreme Court Order 18 Rule 19; (6) that the costs of and occasioned by the application to the ... ...
  • Godwin v Swindon Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 October 2001
    ... ... form having been issued on 17 th February 2000, it was required by rule 7.5(2) to be served within 4 months after that date. By order made on 26 ... For example, for postal service, the certificate has to state the date of posting. From this, the ... ...
  • Anderton v Clwyd County Council; Bryant v Pech and Another; Dorgan v Home Office; Chambers v Southern Domestic Electrical Services Ltd; Cummins v Shell International Manning Services Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 July 2002
    ... ... They are about the effect of the provisions in rule 6.7 for the calculation of the "deemed day of service" of a claim form ... the document exchange or checking the e-mail…Uncertainties in the postal system and considerations of this kind make it sensible that there should ... ...
  • Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation
    • Court of Appeal
    • 17 May 1955
    ... ... But there is no clear rule about contracts made by telephone or by Telex. Communications by these ... as if instantaneous communications are treated in the same way as postal communications. In view of this driver case, I think we must consider the ... ...
  • White v Weston
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 08 March 1968
    ... ... Pursuant to Order 8, Rule 8 (3), the Ilford Registrar put another rubber stamp on the summons: "Send ... plaintiff completes Form 6 on the back of the praecipe requesting postal service (which was not done here) that course is taken unless the ... ...
  • Miles v Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
    • House of Lords
    • 12 March 1987
    ... ... took part in an unofficial "work to rule." The C.E.G.B. were of the opinion that the workmen were not performing ... 49 In Welbourn v. Australian Postal Commission [1984] V.R. 257 , postal workers refused to perform certain ... ...
  • Palmer v Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 January 1984
    ... ... In both of them the relevant time limit was contained in rule 2(1) (a) in the Schedule to the Industrial Tribunals (Industrial ... may be physical, for instance the illness of the complainant or a postal strike; or the impediment may be mental, namely, the state of mind of the ... ...
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 January 1977
    ... ... Queen Anne it was made an offence wilfully to detain or delay any postal letter or packet. The penalty was £20 for every such offence. That would ... 36 This is, to my mind, a direct challenge to the rule of law. Let me take some instances. Only hypothetical, of course, but to ... ...
  • R v County of London Quarter Sessions Appeals Committee, ex parte Rossi
    • Court of Appeal
    • 29 February 1956
    ... ... It will not as a rule be set aside except on payment of costs and showing of merits, see T.O ... The letter was, however, returned to the sender by the postal authorities with an intimation that it had not been delivered as there was ... ...
  • Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandelgesellschaft m.b.H.
    • House of Lords
    • 21 January 1982
    ... ... Order 11 Rule 1(1). Those relied upon are paragraphs ( f ) and ( g ). To satisfy ( f ... —of communication at a distance, to meet which the so called "postal rule" has developed. I need not trace its history: it has firmly been in ... ...
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