Chancery Division
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Biggin Hill Airport Ltd v Bromley London Borough Council
Long lease of airport largely used by non-fare-paying business passengers – Claimant lessee seeking to promote scheduled services – Whether permissible under terms of user clause – Whether obvious from…
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Oceanic Village Ltd v United Attractions Ltd
Lease granted of part of building for use as gift shop – Lessor covenanting with claimant not to permit such use elsewhere in building – Defendant taking lease of another…
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Oil Property Investment Ltd v Olympia & York Canary Wharf Ltd
Commercial lease — Prohibition against assignment without landlord’s prior consent — Consent not to be unreasonably withheld — Tenant given option under lease to determine after 10 years — Proposed…
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Gold v Mincoff Science & Gold
Sections 2, 14A and 32 of Limitation Act 1980 – Claimant executing numerous mortgages during 1980s while acting as sleeping partner in property business operated by M – M obtaining…
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Freedman and others v British Railways Board and another Church Commissioners for England v Same and
Land acquired for railway purposes — Land no longer so required — Obligation to offer back to original owners — Whether provisions requiring land to be so offered still apply…
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McLean Homes (North London) Ltd and another v Dace and another
Landlord giving notice to terminate lease under break clause – Defendants claiming lease not terminated by virtue of agricultural tenancy – Defendants’ claim struck out as abuse of process -…
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Bray v Stuart A West & Co (a firm)
Sale of land — Local land charge — Undertaking by vendor’s solicitors to discharge subsisting charges — Failure to honour undertaking — Whether subject to Limitation Acts — Whether barred…
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Burford Midland Properties Ltd v Marley Extrusions Ltd and others
Lease — Assignee tenant in difficulties — Voluntary arrangement of creditors — Recovery of rent sought from original tenant and assignee — Refusal to pay — Forfeiture of lease –…
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Hamble Parish Council v Haggard and another
Churchyard — Grant of right of way to churchyard extension — Grant made to vicar and successors in title — Whether easement granted without description of “retained land” — Whether…
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Munro and another v Premier Associates Ltd
Sale of tenanted property – Purchasers declaring that a notice to complete would be challenged on grounds relating to subsisting tenancies – Vendor serving notice nevertheless – Purchasers claiming that…
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Crown Estate Commissioners v Dorset County Council
Ownership of road verges — Commons commissioner decided road verges part of highway and not registrable as common land — Encroachments by defendant and others — Whether plaintiff can establish…
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Babic v Thompson and another
Plaintiff seeking continuation of interlocutory injunction – Whether binding agreement between parties – Whether common intention that defendants holding land on trust for plaintiff – Injunction granted