Buck v English Electric Company Ltd
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1977 |
| Date | 1977 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
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16 cases
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McHugh v Deidre Delores Gray (as Personal Representative in the Estate of Dr Charles Gray)
...the disapproval in KR & Others v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd (Auld LJ at paragraph 79) of Kilner Brown J's statement in Buck v English Electric Co Ltd. [1977] 1 WLR 806, 810 that where there has been a delay of five or six years there is a "rebuttable presumption" that the defendant ......
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Irvine (Una) v The Sisters of Nazareth
...cases careful consideration must be given to the ability of the court to hold a fair trial. (Buck v English Electric Company Limited [1977] 1 WLR 806). Even 5 or 6 years delay raises a presumption of prejudice to a defendant but this presumption is rebuttable. As a general rule however the ......
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KR and Others v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and another
...for cases such as these. For example, we could not justify in this context a proposition similar to that of Kilner Brown J. in Buck v. English Electric Co. Limited [1977] 1 WLR 806, at 810B-C, drawing on the then pattern of decisions in cases of strike-out for want of prosecution, that whe......
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Firman v Ellis
...2 W.L.R. 455; [1965] 1 All E.R. 568, C.A. The following additional cases were cited in argument: Buck v. English Electric Co. Ltd. [1977] 1 W.L.R. 806; [1977] I.C.R. 629; [1978] 1 All E.R. 271. Carl Zeiss Stiftung v. Rayner & Keeler Ltd. (No. 2) [1967] 1 A.C. 853; [1966] 3 W.L.R. 125; [1966......
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