Chancery Division
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B&Q plc v Liverpool & Lancashire Properties Ltd
Substantial interference – Owner of retail park announcing intended reduction of common service area – Claimant enjoying express right of passage over area for delivery vehicles – Intended change incompatible…
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Halifax Building Society and others v Edell and others
Duty of care and liability — Surveyors and valuers employed by building societies — Surveys made pursuant to application for further advance by existing borrowers — Allegations of negligence in…
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Law v Cunningham & Co (a firm)
Sale of property and related matters — Principles set out as to duty of care — Whether breach of standard of care — Whether intervening act of third party breaking…
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Re a Company 00792 of 1992, ex parte Tredegar Enterprises Ltd
Injunction — Company acting as surety for rent — Tenant company in liquidation — Lease disclaimed by liquidator — Covenant against surety company for taking of new lease not enforced…
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Ropemaker Properties Ltd v Noonhaven Ltd
Forfeiture — Relief against forfeiture — Breach of user covenant — Evidence of prostitution — Whether defendants had knowledge — Whether relief available — Lease forfeit — Relief on terms…
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Craneheath Securities Ltd v York Montague Ltd
Hotel — Loan secured by charge on property — RICS guidance notes — Whether valuation negligent — Valuer not shown to be negligent — Action dismissed
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Johnsons of London Ltd v Protec Trust Management
Business lease – Break clause in favour of tenant – Interpretation – Rectification – Tenant’s option exercisable within 56 days following determination of reviewed rent – Landlord electing not to…
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Khan v Hamilton
Exchange of contracts — Exchange by telephone and Formula B — Undertaking as to payment of deposit — Deposit not paid for 48 hours — Vendor rescinds — Whether payment…
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Dong Bang Minerva (UK) Ltd v Davina Ltd
Application by tenant for consent of landlord to sublet — Consent refused — Whether consent unreasonably withheld — Whether landlord in breach of statutory duty under Landlord and Tenant Act…
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Straudley Investments Ltd v Mount Eden Land Ltd
Tenant seeking licence to assign long lease – Landlord anxious to procure surrender of lease – Whether refusal of consent reasonably based on alleged breach of repairing covenant
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Abbey National plc v Sayer Moore (a firm)
Defendant solicitor alleged to have negligently facilitated mortgage fraud – Fraud perpetrated nine years before issue of writ – Lender claiming benefit of section 14A Limitation Act 1980 – Defendant…
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Commissioners of Customs & Excise v Church Schools Foundation Ltd
Charity rendering services by improving school buildings leased to operating charity – Improvements partly funded by “grants” made by operating charity – Neither services nor grants contemplated by lease -…