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Cite as: [2001] EWCA Civ 152

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Neutral Citation Number: [2001] EWCA Civ 152
B1/2000/5290

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE
COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM THE TELFORD COUNTY COURT
(Deputy Circuit Judge Malcolm Ward)

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London WC2
Monday, 12th February 2001

B e f o r e :

LORD JUSTICE BUXTON
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EILEEN HAVARD Claimant/Applicant
-v-
PETER HOWELLS Defendant/Respondent

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The Applicant Claimant did not appear and was not represented.
The Respondent Defendant did not appear and was not represented.
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  1. LORD JUSTICE BUXTON:In this application Miss Havard seeks to complain of a judgment delivered by His Honour Malcolm Ward, sitting as a Deputy Circuit Judge in the Telford County Court, as long ago as 11th November 1998. Judge Ward was hearing an application or appeal from the District Judge, who had struck out proceedings brought by Miss Havard against a firm of solicitors on the basis that they were incomprehensible. The Deputy Circuit Judge took the same view.

  2. Miss Havard did not appeal to this Court against that view until 21st January 2000 - that is to say, 15 months after the order had been made. The matter came before me in December on paper and I rejected the application.

  3. Miss Havard has a right to renew the matter in this court, which was arranged for today. She has not appeared to exercise that right. In the circumstances her application is dismissed for want of prosecution.

    4. Order: Application dismissed.

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