The Weekly Law Reports
[2009] 1 WLR 2274
Court of Appeal
*Bovale Ltd v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
[2009] EWCA Civ 171
2009 Jan 21;
March 11
March 11
Waller, Dyson, Stanley Burnton LJJ
Practice— Practice directions— Jurisdiction to make— Statutory prohibition on giving “practice directions” without consent of Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice— Judge in case management judgment directing procedure to be followed in certain types of proceedings— Directions at variance with Civil Procedure Rules and supplementary practice directions— Whether judgment “practice direction”— Whether guidance as to interpretation of Rules “practice direction”— Whether consent required for judgments including procedural directions of general application where existing Rules and supplementary practice directions making no provision— Whether judge entitled to give directions of general effect—
Civil Procedure Act 1997 (c 12) (as amended by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c 4), s 13, Sch 2, para 6), ss 5(1)(2), 9(2)