Multiplex Construction (Uk) Ltd v Honeywell Control Systems Ltd: TCC 8 Feb 2007

Application for permission to appeal. Jackson J considered whether permission to appeal should have been requested at the hearing: ‘It seems to me that I have got to interpret the provisions of Rule 52.3 and the provisions of the Practice Direction in a manner which is obviously consonant with the intentions of those who drafted these provisions. It will be noted that paragraph 4.3B of the Practice Direction begins with the words ‘Where no application for permission to appeal has been made in accordance with rule 52.3.(2)(a).’ These words seem to me to contemplate a situation in which the original hearing has ended and the losing party has not applied for permission to appeal. One then comes to the following words: ‘but a party requests further time to make such an application, the court may adjourn the hearing to give that party the opportunity to do so.’ It seems to me that when those words are read in context they must confer a power on the court after the end of the hearing at which judgment was given to make an order adjourning that hearing to some other appropriate date in order to hear the application for permission to appeal. Whether or not the court will exercise that jurisdiction is another matter altogether. There must be good reason to do so. There must be good reason for the court to reconvene to hear an application for permission which could perfectly well have been made on the occasion when judgment was handed down. I would have considerable doubts that the court would or possibly could exercise this power after the expiry of the twenty-one day time limit. However, it seems to me that this court does have power under paragraph 4.3B of the Practice Direction and under rule 52.3(2) of the Civil Procedure Rules to hold a continuation of the original hearing in order to deal with an application for permission to appeal in the period shortly following the date when the original judgment was given, provided that the order has not been drawn up.’

Jackson J
[2007] EWHC 236 (TCC)
Bailii
Civil Procedure Rules 52.3
England and Wales
Citing:
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