Chancery Division
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Buyneat Ltd v Tanap Investments (UK) Ltd and another ; Same v Same
Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Construction of clause providing that reviewed rent of headleases was to be a proportion of the rents, service charges and other payments under…
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Lansdowne Rodway Estates Ltd v Potown Ltd and others
Landlord and tenant — Office building development project — Ambitious scheme for erection in Worcester of 75,000 sq ft of usable office space for which plaintiffs had obtained outline planning…
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Barclays Bank plc v Daejan Investments (Grove Hall) Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Consent for change of use proposed on terms that lease should include landlord ‘s break clause — Whether a ‘fine’ within section 19(3) of Landlord and…
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Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v Gray and others
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in subunderlease — Construction — Unusual clause providing for initial rent of 14-year reversionary term to be increased retrospectively as135 from the commencement…
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Long v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
Adverse possession — Landlord and tenant — Tenant not paying rent — Whether time ran from expiration of notice to quit or date when rent stopped — Whether ‘lease in…
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Venetian Glass Gallery Ltd v Next Properties Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Assignment of lease — Consent to assignment — Whether consent given to assignment — Whether formal licence to assign an escrow — Conditions of escrow –…
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Michael Richards Properties Ltd v Corporation of Wardens of St Saviour’s Parish, Southwark
Sale by tender already effectively in contract form, with no terms remaining to be negotiated–Words ‘subject to contract’ mistakenly typed by a secretary on vendor’s acceptance of tender–Parties behaved as…
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GS Fashions Ltd v B&Q plc and others
Landlord and tenant — Specially endorsed writ claimed forfeiture of leases — By its defence tenant admitted forfeiture — Whether landlord can thereafter contend that lease has not been forfeited
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Central & Metropolitan Estates Ltd v Compusave and others
Rectification of lease — Claim by plaintiff lessors that the omission of rent review provisions from a lease was accidental and that defendant lessees knew before execution that plaintiffs believed…
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Woods and others v Mackenzie Hill Ltd
Contract of sale of land incorporating Law Society’s conditions, including condition permitting service of notice to complete–Presence of this condition does not exclude normal contractual obligation to complete–Vendor entitled to…
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British Telecom plc v Sun Life Assurance Society plc
Landlord and tenant — Covenant to keep in repair — Whether landlord in breach at any time when premises out of repair — Whether landlord in breach only after expiration…
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North Hertfordshire District Council v Hitchin Industrial Estate Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Whether time of the essence for service of trigger notice