West Indies Sugar v Stanley Minnell

JurisdictionJamaica
CourtCourt of Appeal (Jamaica)
Year1993
Date1993

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22 cases
  • Mead, Horace v CIBC (Ja) Ltd & Attorney General of Jamaica
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 17 September 2004
    ...the rule, the Court of Appeal was prepared to hold that inordinate delay by itself was sufficient to strike out a claim (see West Indies Sugar v Stanley Mitchell (1993) 30 J.L.R. 542 ). This position was arrived at in Jamaica some six years before the House of Lords came to the sad but corr......
  • Grey, Gerald v Dist Cons Esson & Attorney General
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 11 October 2002
    ...prevent the recollection of the sharp detail required to impress a tribunal as to fact. 15 It has been held in the cases of West Indies Sugar v Minnell 1993 30 JLR 542 and in the Vashti Wood case that inordinate delay by itself can be relied on to show prejudice. I am satisfied that prejudi......
  • Administrator General of Jamaica (Administrator Estate Alvin Augustus Cargill - deceased) v Vivian Plowright and Ferdinand Murphy
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 19 July 2001
    ...9Turning to the ruling of the learned judge, it reads: "Having had an opportunity to look at the authorities particularly West Indies Sugar Co, vs Stanley Minnel, I find them most instructive. There has been inordinate delay on the part of the Plaintiff. Writ filed on 4/6/96 and also the St......
  • Select Holdings Ltd v Petroleum Coporation of Jamaica Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 7 November 2002
    ...it was in substance the same action as the one previously brought in 1992. She referred the court to several authorities including West Indies Sugar v Minnell [1993] 30 J.L.R 452; Vashti Wood v H.A Liquors Ltd. et al [1995] 48 W.I.R. 240; Biss v Lambeth et al [1978] 2 All E.R 125 (abuse o......
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