Chancery Division
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Varty (Inspector of Taxes) v Lynes
Capital gains tax–Sale of house and part of garden followed about a year later by sale of rest of garden with benefit of outline planning permission–Claim for total exemption under…
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Mammoth Greeting Cards Ltd v Agra Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review provisions in underlease — Construction — Whether time of the essence — Tenants’ counternotice in response to landlords’ trigger notice not served within the…
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Warren and another v Marketing Exchange for Africa Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Consent to assignments and change of use of demised premises — Whether withholding of consent unreasonable — Application by tenants for declarations that consents had been…
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IDC Group Ltd and others v Clark and others
Easement — Constructive trust — Licence — Agreement for provision of fire-escape route through door in party wall into interior of flat — Whether agreement, which was made by deed,…
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Wrotham Park Settled Estates v Naylor
Landlord and tenant — 999-year lease of farmhouse — Alleged breach of covenant by lessee — History of differences between the parties — Conversion of cowshed into cottage and store…
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McGregor (Inspector of Taxes) v Adcock
Section 34 of Finance Act 1965–‘Retirement relief’ against capital gains tax–Sale of part of farmland–Not sale of part of farm business–Land only asset of business–Crown wins appeal
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Re 1-4 White Row Cottages, Bewerley
Commons Registration Act 1965 — Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989, section 1(2) — Notice of objection
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Mobil Oil Co Ltd v Rawlinson
Legal mortgagee’s right to possession — Restatement of the law by Nourse J, following Birmingham Citizens Permanent Building Society v Caunt — Passages in Fisher and Lightwood and Halsbury’s Laws…
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Re The Rye, High Wycombe, Bucks
Commons–Registration–Meaning of ‘allotment’ of land within section 23(1) of the Commons Registration Act 1965
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Coopind (UK) Ltd v Walton Commercial Group Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Easement — Construction of lease — ‘Right to receive a supply of gas’ — Whether lessees’ rights extended to right to lay a new gas main…
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Murphy v Sawyer-Hoare and another
Landlord and tenant — Disclaimer of lease — Whether surety to assignee of lease discharged upon disclaimer of lease
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Staines Warehousing Co Ltd v Montagu Executor & Trustee Co Ltd and another
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease of property in trading estate — Whether a letter to the president of the RICS on behalf of the landlords constituted…