Read the full judgment text of DCCJ 3972/2003 on BabelCite. This District Court judgment was delivered on 24 March 2004.
1. When faced with an application for leave to appeal, a judge at first instance must obviously approach the matter completely dispassionately and in no sense be defensive about his own judgment. In any event, as I follow the principles, the hurdle for a would-be appellant is not an especially high one. The principle is that in Smith v Cotsworth Casting Processes Limited [1997] 1 WLR 1538, the judgment of the court being one by Woolf LJ, as he then was, the principle being that the court will on