The court considered the failure of the respondent to comply with a statutory requirement to comply with a request from a detained person to consult a solicitor ‘as soon as practicable’.
Held: For the police to deny access to solicitors at court after the court began at 10am was unlawful at common law, and an infringement of their rights. Ralph Gibson LJ referred to definitions of ‘practicable’ found respectively in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and Webster’s Dictionary: ‘capable of being carried out – feasible’ and ‘possible to be accomplished with known means and known resources’ respectively.
Ralph Gibson LJ
Independent 01-Apr-1994, Times 17-Feb-1994, [1994] 1 WLR 663
England and Wales
Citing:
Approved – Dedman v British Building and Engineering Appliances CA 1973
The claimant sought to bring his claim under a provision which required a complaint to the industrial tribunal to be made within four weeks of the dismissal unless the employment tribunal was satisfied that this was not ‘practicable’. He did not . .
Cited by:
Cited – North Somerset District Council v Honda Motor Europe Ltd and Others QBD 2-Jul-2010
Deleayed Rates Claims Service made them Defective
The council claimed that the defendants were liable for business rates. The defendants said that the notices were defective in not having been served ‘as soon as practicable’, and further that they should not be enforced since the delay had created . .
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Updated: 27 September 2021; Ref: scu.86359
