Chancery Division
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Million Pigs Ltd v Parry and another (No 2)
Rent review clause in lease of a farm for a fixed term — Review clause provided that time should be of the essence of the contract for the first step,…
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Southwark London Borough Council v Mills and others
Landlord and tenant — Covenant for quiet enjoyment — Inadequate noise insulation — Whether landlord obliged to carry out effective soundproofing of flats
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Gordon and another v Selico Co Ltd and another
Landlord and tenant — Significant decision on two important issues, namely the extent to which vendors may be liable for80 covering up serious defects in premises without express oral or…
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Electricity Supply Nominees v F M Insurance Co Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Question as to whether the hypothetical lease should be assumed to exclude the provision for rent reviews — Rent was…
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Hannon v 169 Queen’s Gate Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Covenants — Implied term — Landlord proposing to construct additional flats on existing block of flats — Whether lease contained implied term against construction of additional…
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Johnson and another v Davies and another
Landlord and tenant — Sureties — Tenant company sold by sureties — Purchasing shareholders giving indemnification to sureties — Insolvency — Whether co-debtors to sureties released by insolvency voluntary arrangement…
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National Car Parks Ltd v The Paternoster Consortium Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II — Tenants’ request for new lease — Terms of new lease — Whether lease should contain a break clause — Plaintiff tenants sought…
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Pitt (Inspector of Taxes) v Castle Hill Warehousing Co Ltd
Warehouse company’s new access road–Cost held capital outlay for tax purposes, though road built merely as a replacement to avoid local residents’ complaints
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Cricket Ltd v Shaftesbury plc
Landlord and tenant — Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Part II — Section 43(3) — Occupation as tenant for two successive periods less than 12 months — Further occupation as…
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Standard Life Assurance Co v Oxoid Ltd; ; Oxoid Ltd v Standard Life Assurance Co
Landlord and tenant — Construction of unusual rent review clause in lease of industrial premises — Instead of usual rent review provisions based on a hypothetical letting of the actual…
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British Gas Corporation v Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent review clause in lease of office premises — Conflicting decisions considered by Vice-Chancellor — Another case on the question whether, in determining the…
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Weller v Akehurst and another
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Time of the essence — Lease providing for rent of £850 per annum for first seven years of 14 years’…