Chancery Division
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Garner (Inspector of Taxes) v Pounds Shipowners & Shipbreakers Ltd and related action
Taxpayers granting option to buy land to purchaser – Option dependent on taxpayers obtaining release from restrictive covenants – Release from restrictive covenants obtained for consideration of £90,000 – Taxpayers…
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Turner v Stevenage Borough Council
Lease — Rent review — Failure to agree new rent — Arbitrator appointed to determine revised rent — Request for payment of costs in advance of arbitration — One party…
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Tanap Investments (UK) Ltd v Tozer and others
Breach of contract — Deposit paid — Purchaser alleging vendors’ failure to comply with contractual obligations — Whether such failure proven — Judgment for vendors
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Pagemanor Ltd v Ryan
Invalid agreement to sell house – Parties deferring completion for five years – Buyer taking immediate possession but failing to keep to agreed timetable of payments – Seller evicting buyer…
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Brimican Investments Ltd v Blue Circle Heating Ltd
Commercial premises — Underlease — Rent review — Surveyor to fix rent in event of disagreement — “Upwards-only review” omitted from lease — Tenant in premises on basis of earlier…
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Johnsey Estates (1990) Ltd and another v Newport Marketworld Ltd and others
Lease and agreement for lease — Discrepancy in name of tenant in agreement for lease — Whether binding agreement — Whether plaintiffs’ solicitor negligent — Whether guarantee of tenant’s obligations…
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Michaels and another v Frogmore Estates plc and another
Sale of block of flats – Attempt to avoid tenant pre-emption rights under Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 by vesting block in subsidiary company and contracting to sell controlling shareholding…
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TWH (Developments) Ltd v United Mizrahi Bank and others
Bankers’ charge over freehold tenanted property coupled with assignment of right to receive rents from tenant – Rental payments ceasing – Whether right to appoint receiver triggered by default of…
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Barclays Bank plc v Prudential Assurance Ltd
Lessee of valuable night club premises subsequently taking “supplemental” lease of adjacent land for car parking – Charge by assignee of both leases in favour of plaintiff bank – Lessor…
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Crown Estate Commissioners v Possfund Custodian Trustee Ltd
Lease — Terms — Tenant being required to produce certified statements — Whether alternate provision constituting a penalty — Further provision based on letting of net internal area to trigger…
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Coles and others v William Hill Organisation Ltd
Landlord’s solicitors submitting draft lease mistakenly including break clause in favour of tenants – Tenants’ solicitors noticing error but allowing lease to proceed to execution without comment – Landlord claiming…
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Keepers and Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon
Named insurer — Unilateral change of insurer by defendants — Breach of covenant — Application to High Court for declaration that defendants in breach — Whether court had power to…