Time Limit in UK Law

  • Re X (A Child) (Surrogacy: Time limit)
    • Family Division
    • 03 October 2014
  • Alexey Samarenko v Dawn Hill House Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 01 December 2011
    ... ... appeal are: i) Is a failure to pay a deposit on time under a contract for the sale of land necessarily a repudiatory breach of ... 9 Whether a time limit is of the essence of a contractual provision is a question of ... ...
  • R v Jones (Michael)
    • House of Lords
    • 14 October 2004
    ... ... By that time, as will be seen, it was too late to prosecute J under section 6 of the ... assault in such circumstances was a device to circumvent the time limit on a prosecution for unlawful sexual intercourse and so amounted to an ... ...
  • Dedman v British Building & Engineering Appliances Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 06 November 1973
    ... ... was presented on 26th June 1972) was within the four weeks and was in time. But the Chairman dissented. He thought that his employment was terminated ... for unfair dismissal is bound to comply with a very strict time limit. We must present his complaint within four weeks after his employment has ... ...
  • Sayers v Clarke Walker (A Firm)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 July 2002
    ... ... appellants were persuaded that they had to ask for an extension of time. They filed evidence in support. The defendants filed evidence in answer, ... notice recording that she "confirmed" that the 14-day time limit for appealing a decision ran from the date the order was sealed. Mr ... ...
  • Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group Plc v Commissioners of Inland Revenue and Attorney General
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 February 2005
    ... ... Time limit for actions founded on tort An action founded on ... ...
  • Porter v Bandridge Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 May 1978
    ... ... Tribunal on 15th June, when objectior was taken that it was out of time. In evidence before the Industrial Tribunal the appellant said that he was ... man knew or was put on enquiry as to his rights and as to the time limit then it was practicable for him to have presented his complaint within the ... ...
  • Farakh Rashid v Teyub Nasrullah (acting as Executor of the Estate of the Late Mohammed Rashid)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 November 2018
    ... ... 2 At the time of the forged transfer the legal regime in force was the Land Registration ... The public have a great interest, in having a known limit fixed by law to litigation, for the quiet of the community…”” ... ...
  • Somerville and Others v Scottish Ministers (HM Advocate General for Scotland intervening)
    • House of Lords
    • 24 October 2007
    ... ... , where a continuing breach of Convention rights over a period of time is alleged, time begins to run, for the purposes of section 7(5) of the ... The Scotland Act 1998 ("SA") does not contain any time limit of its own within which proceedings in which it is alleged that a member ... ...
  • R (Burkett) v Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council (No 1)
    • House of Lords
    • 23 May 2002
    ... ... 3 At that time Order 53 r 4 (1) of the Rules of the Supreme Court provided that an ... no date from which time runs and accordingly no specific time limit. It is, however, a useful reserve power in some cases, such as where an ... ...
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