Witness Summons in UK Law

  • R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
    • House of Lords
    • 22 June 1995
    ... ... was made on 21 June for the Stipendiary Magistrate to grant a witness summons directed to the solicitor seeking the production of privileged ... ...
  • Roy v Prior
    • House of Lords
    • 07 July 1970
    ... ... The defendant on or about the 27th May 1968 issued a witness summons requiring the plaintiff to attend as a witness at the trial of Mr ... ...
  • VTB Capital Plc v Nutritek International Corpn
    • Supreme Court
    • 06 February 2013
    ... ... for the defendants pointed out, it is striking that all of VTB's witness statements in support of its application for permission to serve out, ... resident in Russia and so beyond the reach of an English witness summons; and the relevant documentation, in particular relating to both the actual ... ...
  • Balogh v St. Albans Crown Court
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 04 July 1974
    ... ... 144 ... There is an older case, too, of great authority, where a witness refused to answer a proper question. The Judge of Assize at York Castle at ... His employer threatened to dismiss him if he obeyed the summons. Mr. Justice Melford Stevenson said it was a contempt of Court which made ... ...
  • Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd v Maxwell; Cooper v Maxwell; Mirror Group Newspapers Plc v Maxwell
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 February 1993
    ... ... a "mere witness" summoned before the court under section 96 of the 1869 Act, was entitled ... His appeal against a refusal to set aside a witness summons was dismissed. Baggallay L.J. said (at p.121): "It appears to me ... ...
  • Re M (A Child) (Care Proceedings: Witness Summons)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 January 2007
  • Dolling-Baker v Merrett and Another
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 1990
    ... ... Mr Turner seeks to appeal against that award, and has issued a summons for leave to appeal and lodged Notice of Motion dated 23rd February, ... 10 "All pleadings, documents, witness statements, experts reports and any other relevant documents produced ... ...
  • Masri v Consolidated Contractors International Company SAL and Others (No.4)
    • House of Lords
    • 30 July 2009
    ... ... "Nor is a State entitled to enforce the attendance of a foreign witness before its own tribunals by threatening him with penalties in case of ... haul before it persons who could not be served with the necessary summons within the jurisdiction of the English court" (p.158E-F). He noted first ... ...
  • Re P (Witness Summons)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
  • Re P (A Minor) (Care Proceedings: Witness Summons)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 1997
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