The slip rule cannot be used to retrospectively extend the life of creditor's petitions or similar statutory time-limited processes unless the practitioner demonstrates that the discretion to extend could only have been exercised one way; the slip rule cannot supply an order where the court never adverted to the need to exercise the discretion.
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