Sheldon and Others v R H M Outhwaite (Underwriting Agencies) Ltd and Others

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtQueen's Bench Division
Judgment Date20 October 1993
Date20 October 1993

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6 cases
  • Sheldon v R H. M. Outhwaite (Underwriting Agencies) Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 30 June 1994
    ...Miss Dohmann relied were UBAF Ltd v. European Banking Corporation (1984) 1QB 713 and Westlake v. Bracknell D C (1987) HLR 375. In the BAF(1994) 1 WLR 754). The issue he had to decide was whether the plaintiffs could rely on section 32 (1)(b) of the Limitation Act 1980 to overcome a statutor......
  • Lowsley v Forbes (t/a L.E. Design Services)
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 29 July 1998
    ...Act 1980 is a consolidation Act. He reminded us of what Lord Keith of Kinkel said in the same context as recently as 1995 in Sheldon v. Outhwaite [1996] 1 A.C. 102, 140: "Recourse to the antecedents of a consolidation statute should only be had when there is a real difficulty or ambiguity i......
  • Williams and Another v Lishman Sidwell Campbell & Price & Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 April 2010
    ...were nicely poised, as demonstrated by the fact that Saville J decided at first instance that section 32 protected the claimant ( [1994] 1 WLR 754), this court reversed that decision by a majority (Sir Thomas Bingham MR and Kennedy LJ, Staughton LJ dissenting, [1996] 1 AC 102 at 108ff), and......
  • Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association v Herman Iskandar and Another
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 30 March 1998
    ... ... In Sheldon v RHM Outwaite (Underwriting Agencies) Ltd ... ...
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