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

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date20 October 1993
Date20 October 1993
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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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
    ...THE ROLLSThis appeal is against a preliminary ruling on an issue of law made by Saville J in the Commercial Court on 20th October 1993( (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 statutory......
  • 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), an......
  • Higham v Stena Sealink Ltd (Stena Cambria)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 February 1996
    ...concealment or mistake; and in support of this contention he cited passages in the very recent decision of the House of Lords in Sheldon -v- Outhwaite 1995 2 WLR 570, which, he suggested, equate exclusion with extension (eg. per Lord Lloyd of Berwick at p 580 —581). 49 I am unable to accept......
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