Erskine Communications Ltd and Another v Worthington and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date08 July 1991
Date08 July 1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

Court of Appeal

Erskine Communications Ltd and Another
and
Worthington and Others

Practice - judicial discretion - no rigid formulae

Discretions should not be made rigid

The Rules of the Supreme Court were an indispensable framework for the orderly administration of justice, but no more. The general discretions they conferred should not be crammed into a set of rigid formulae.

Where, therefore, cross-applications were made for an extension of time for delivery of a statement of claim and for the...

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  • Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Davies
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Mayo 1996
  • Vestwin Trading Pte Ltd and Another v Obegi Melissa and Others
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 27 Junio 2006
    ... ... 16        As Mustill LJ said in Erskine Communications Ltd v Worthington The Times (8 July 1991): ... [I]t would be absurd to say that ... ...
  • Credit Agricole Indosuez v The Owners of the Vessel European Vision et Al
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 23 Septiembre 2004
    ...Prentice Hall Incorporated [1969] 1 W.L.R. 157; Thompson v. Thompson (1980) 33 W.I.R. 256; Erskine Communications Ltd v. Worthington, The Times, 8 July 1991; Mortgage Corporation Ltd v. Sandoes et al [1996] T.L.R. 751 and Finnegan v. Parkside Health Authority [1998] 1 All E.R.595. 26 In my ......
  • Costellow v Somerset County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 Noviembre 1992
    ...our attention was drawn (as that of the judge below was not) to a decision of the Court of Appeal given on 22nd May 1991, Erskine Communications Limited v.Worthington, Court of appeal (Civil Division) Transcript No. 725 of 1991, The Times Law Reports, 8th July 1991. The facts and procedural......