Chancery Division
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Sambrin Investments Ltd v Taborn and another
Landlord and tenant — Repairing covenant — Shop premises — Breaches — Provision for re-entry — Forfeiture — Relief — Application for summary judgment under Ord 14 — Plaintiff landlords…
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Lawrence v McFarlane
Man and mistress contribute £558 and £172 respectively towards purchase of house–Conveyance in joint names, both parties liable as mortgagors–Doctrine of Crisp v Mullings applied, man to have 2408/4430 of…
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Westminster City Council v Quereshi and another
Compulsory purchase — Compulsory Purchase Act 1965, section 4 — Acquisition of Land Act 1981, section 26(1) — Compulsory Purchase (Vesting Declarations) Act 1981, sections 3 and 4(1) — Whether…
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Jacob Isbicki & Co Ltd v Goulding & Bird Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Construction of provisions in lease relating to tenants’ liability to contribute to landlords’ expenditure on repair, maintenance and renewal of demised premises — Dispute concerned tenants’…
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Crown Estate Commissioners v Signet Group plc and another
Landlord and tenant — Refusal of consent to assign, change of use and make alterations — Whether refusal reasonable — Whether landlord entitled to consider estate management objectives of its…
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SI Pension Trustees Ltd v Ministerio de Marina de la Republica Peruana
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Construction — Effect of user covenant — Effect of restrictions in licence to assign to defendants — The hypothetical letting…
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Lloyds Bank plc v Bowker Orford and another
Service charges — Expenditure items including ‘any other beneficial services’ — Whether landlord entitled to recover costs of external repairs and internal decoration and/or repairs of common parts, capital expenditure,…
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Pearl Assurance plc v Shaw
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent-review clause in lease of commercial premises — Clause contained a provision that the rent was to be ascertained ‘taking no account’ inter alia…
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Laing Investment Co Ltd v G A Dunn & Co
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Landlords’ claim to be entitled to operate rent review machinery despite failure to carry out certain stages of the procedure…
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Samuels (WA)’s Trustee v Samuels
Wife claims to have improved husband’s house (a) before his desertion (b) between desertion and bankruptcy, and (c) thereafter–Claim under (a) based on wife’s work in husband’s business–Too remote–Claim under…
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Suleman v Shahsavari and others
Vendor and purchaser — Vendors’ refusal to complete — Whether binding contract — Authority of vendors’ agent — Action by purchaser against vendors for specific performance and against agent for…
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Hannaford and another v Selby and another
Family arrangement between couple and wife’s parents–Mortgage taken out by couple alone without capital contribution from parents–No evidence that parents had or could have had reasonable belief that they were…