Chancery Division
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Buckingham County Council v Moran
Adverse possession — Action to recover possession of land — Plot purchased for road scheme but not used by owner — Squatter placed lock on gate — Whether owner dispossessed…
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Chelsea Building Society v R&A Millet (Shops) Ltd
Lease of shop premises — Provisions of rent review — Requirement that notice of review be given to lessee six months before review date — Lessor failed to give notice…
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Billson and others v Residential Apartments Ltd
Landlords re-entering premises and claiming possession — Assignees of lease breaching covenants — Forfeiture — Whether courts could grant relief — High Court refusing tenants’ application for relief — Order…
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Gibson Investments Ltd v Chesterton plc
Full repairing lease of steel-framed building — Building affected by “Regent Street disease” — Bad cracking of outer stonework — Landlord insisting on curative measures — Tenant proposing short-term remedy…
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Jerome v Kelly (HMIT)
Trustees holding land on bare trust for taxpayer and others — Trustees contracting to sell — Transfers of different parts deferred — Taxpayer beneficiary transferring part of his beneficial interest…
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Birmingham City Council v Anvil Fairs (a firm) and others
Exclusive statutory market right owned by city council — Two market rights licensed by council — Common law protection for markets within 6 2/3 miles — Rival market held within…
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Billson and others v Residential Apartments Ltd
Property demised to original lessees — Assignees of lease breaching covenants — Landlords re-entering premises and claiming possession — Whether courts could grant relief — House of Lords remitting case…
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Silven Properties Ltd and another v Royal Bank of Scotland plc and others (Action 3531); Silven Property Ltd v Royal Bank of Scotland plc and others (Action 3279)
Bank appointing receivers of mortgaged properties shortly after issuing formal demand — Whether right to do so restricted by alleged assurances given to claimant mortgagors — Whether receivers in breach…
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Herongrove Ltd v Wates City of London Properties plc
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, section 25 — Trial of preliminary issue treated by consent as trial of the action — Issue concerned the validity of the notice under section…
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Batchelor v Marlow and another
Easements — Acquisition — Prescription — Parking and storage of vehicles –– Whether use without planning permission precludes prescriptive claim –– Whether easement to park and to store vehicles ––…
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Bakewell Management Ltd v Brandwood and others
Easement — Defendant householders asserting vehicular way over common — Common subject to section 193 of Law of Property Act 1925 — Householders’ claim based upon prescription — Whether possible…
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Checkpoint Ltd v Strathclyde Pension Fund
Sections 68 and 69 of Arbitration Act 1996 — Arbitrator fixing rent at double the passing rent — Arbitrator accepting comparables located six miles from demised warehouse — Tenant appealing…