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Where an application to proceed with diligence under the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act 1914, sec. 1 (1), is unopposed the Court will not grant the expenses of the application.
The Standard Property Investment Company, Limited, having presented an application to the Court of Session for leave to proceed with diligence on an extract registered bond in terms of the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act 1914 (4 and 5 Geo. V, cap. 78), sec. 1 ( a), the application was not opposed and leave was granted.
On counsel moving for the expenses of the application, the Court refused the motion, the Lord President intimating that their Lordships had consulted with the learned Judges of the Second Division, and that where applications under the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act 1914 were unopposed, the expenses of the application would not be granted.
Counsel for the Applicants— Forbes. Agents— Duncan Smith & Maclaren, S.S.C.