Erskine Communications Ltd and Another v Worthington and Others
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 08 July 1991 |
| Date | 08 July 1991 |
| Court | Court 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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... ... 16 As Mustill LJ said in Erskine Communications Ltd v Worthington The Times (8 July 1991): ... [I]t would be absurd to say that ... ...
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Costellow v Somerset County Council
...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......