Preliminary Issue in UK Law

  • Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society
    • House of Lords
    • 19 June 1997
    ... ... to be tried as preliminary issues in the manner proposed by my noble and learned friend. I would ... On this occasion it is not the Rules that are primarily in issue, but a single clause in the Claim Form which investors are required to ... ...
  • Al-Rawi & others v The Security Service & others
    • Supreme Court
    • 13 July 2011
    ... ... Introduction ... 1 The issue that arises on this appeal is whether the court has the power to order a closed material procedure" as described in the preliminary issue that was tried by Silber J for the whole or part of the trial of a ... ...
  • Allied Maples Group Ltd v Simmons & Simmons
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 May 1995
    ... ... a judgment of Turner J given on 8 June 1993 on the trial of a preliminary issue as to liability ... 4 The Plaintiffs are a ... ...
  • White v Brunton
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 March 1984
    ... ... Justice McCullough on a preliminary point. It has itself given rise to a preliminary point in this court, ... Thus the issue of final or interlocutory depended upon the nature and effect of the order ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 March 2001
    ... ... (now Clarke L.J.) ordered preliminary questions to be tried. This order was made on 19 July 1995 at a stage when ... in the United Kingdom the House may only determine the Community law issue if the matter is truly acte clair ... 9 In a disappointingly ... ...
  • McLoughlin v Jones and Others
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 November 2001
    ... ... Manchester on 24th July 2000 when he ruled on the trial of a preliminary issue that the claimant's claim for damages for personal injury being ... ...
  • Giles v Rhind
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 October 2002
    ... ... point worthy of consideration by a judge and directed that a preliminary issue be tried as to whether any, and if so which, items included in the ... ...
  • R v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, ex parte National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 09 April 1981
    ... ... 4 The issue which comes before us is presented as one related solely to the question ... before it, the point as to locus standi was treated as a preliminary point "Before we embark on the case itself", said Lord Widgery C. J., "we ... ...
  • Dorset Yacht Company Ltd v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 06 May 1970
    ... ... 2 The case comes before your Lordships on a preliminary issue whether the Home Office or these Borstal officers owed any duty of ... ...
  • Nethermere (St. Neots) Ltd v Gardiner
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 May 1984
    ... ... an industrial tribunal in November 1981 unanimously deciding a preliminary issue in favour of the applicants, Mrs. Taverna and Mrs. Gardiner, that ... ...
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