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The court dismissed the defendant’s summons for relief from an unless order, finding no acceptable reason to extend time and no basis to order a jury trial.
The Court dismissed a defendant’s summons to extend time to pay the jury deposit in a defamation action, holding the statutory time limit had been missed and a fresh jury trial was not justified.
The Court of Appeal granted leave to appeal against a drug-trafficking conviction, finding the challenge to the trial judge’s summing-up remarks reasonably arguable.
Costs decision after refusal of a jury trial application: the defendant had to pay costs after 30 May 2016, while earlier costs were left in the cause.
The court refused the defendant’s application for a jury trial in a libel action, holding the statutory right had been lost and discretion weighed against it.
The court ordered the defendants to pay the plaintiffs’ costs of a jury-trial dispute, applying the ordinary rule that costs follow the event.
The court varied an earlier order and allowed a libel trial to proceed before a bilingual judge with a jury, vacating the fixed trial dates and setting a seven-day estimate.
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