Chancery Division
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Post Office Counters Ltd v Harlow District Council
Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Arbitration — Application under section 1(2) of Arbitration Act 1979 to set aside arbitrator’s award — Construction of rent review provisions — Restrictive…
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Parsons v Parsons and others
Landlord and tenant — Agricultural holdings — Decision on agricultural holdings case, but with general bearing on landlord and tenant law — Whether a notice to quit given to a…
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Wolff and another v London Borough of Enfield
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent-review clause in lease — Provision that the fair market rent for the purpose of the clause was to be the best annual rent…
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Kewal Investments Ltd v Arthur Maiden Ltd
RSC Ord 14 — Application by freehold owners of land for summary judgment in relation to part — Whether defendants had put forward any arguable defence which merited a trial…
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Equity & Law Life Assurance Society plc v Bodfield Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent review clause in lease — Whether a provision that the terms of the hypothetical letting should be the same as those of the…
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Covell Matthews & Partners v French Wools Ltd
Application for new tenancy–ease to withdraw sought–Action pending for specific performance of alleged binding agreement to grant lease–Leave to withdraw nevertheless granted on terms–Rent payable until ‘date of withdrawal’–Date of…
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Sutton London Borough Council v Bolton and another
Local government — Power to appropriate land — Overriding of restrictive covenants — Whether land appropriated so that restrictive covenant overridden under what is now section 237 of the Town…
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Coates Brothers plc v General Accident Life Assurance Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II, section 24A — Procedural problems in regard to landlords’ right to apply for interim rent — Whether landlords’ summons for interim rent invalid…
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Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes and another v North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
Compensation for compulsory acquisition–Claim by church for compensation on equivalent reinstatement basis–Purported withdrawal of notice to treat by acquiring authority–Whether authority entitled to withdraw–Whether claimants had served a proper notice…
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Bracknell Development Corporation v Greenlees Lennards Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Lease for 21 years containing an option for the tenant to claim a further term of 21 years at a ‘full and fair market rent’ to…
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CIL Securities Ltd v Briant Champion Long
Negligence — Rent review — Whether surveyor negligent in failing to obtain sufficient evidence of comparable transactions before advising settlement
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Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council v Tops Shop Centres Ltd; ; Same v Glassgrove Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Forfeiture of head lease — Consequences for underlessees and mortgagees — Underlessees not told of forfeiture — Relief against forfeiture — Law of Property Act 1925,…