Rehearing or review?

Ansari and others v Puffin Investment Co Ltd and others (QBD TLR 17 July)

On an appeal from the summary judgment of a master, the High Court could deal with the matter as a rehearing rather than a review, even though the sole ground for seeking a rehearing was that the court below had failed to give reasons for its decision. Burton J disagreed with the decision in Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Lewis (TLR 16 August 2001) that in such circumstances the court should not hold a rehearing rather than a review. He treated the appeal as a rehearing.