Extension of time for appeal: application in agricultural holding cases

In Smyth-Tyrrell and Another v Sowden [2017] EWHC 2331 (Ch) HHJ Paul Matthews considered and refused an application for an extension of the 28-day period permitted for an appeal under the Arbitration Act 1996. The arbitration was held under the mandatory requirement in the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, but the court proceeded on the basis that the 1996 Act’s principles applied.

Smyth-Tyrrell : the facts