Chancery Division
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Caerns Motor Services Ltd v Texaco Ltd and another ; Geddes and others v Texaco Ltd and another
Landlord and tenant — Solus agreements — Leases containing petrol ties — Assignment of reversion — Whether assignee can enforce benefit of ties against tenants
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Hill Samuel Life Assurance Ltd v Preston Borough Council
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Construction — Unusual formula for determination of hypothetical rent — Judgment in favour of construction put forward by plaintiff lessees…
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John Lewis Properties plc v Viscount Chelsea
Landlord and tenant–Covenant to pull down buildings–Buildings becoming listed–Construction and effect of covenants
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Leslie & Godwin Investments Ltd v Prudential Assurance Co Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II — Tenants’ application for new tenancy — Appeal from master’s order for directions — Lease, which related to part of a building in…
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MFI Properties Ltd v BICC Group Pension Trust Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent review clause in underleases of commercial premises — This was another case in which the issue was whether the hypothetical lease assumed for…
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Cork v Cork
Agricultural tenancy — Joint tenancy — Notice to quit — Whether one joint tenant can compel other tenant to join in service of counternotice — Whether interlocutory mandatory injunction can…
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Morgan and others v Stainer
Landlord and tenant–Service charge–Whether landlord entitled to claim the costs of legal proceedings from tenants as part of service charge contributions
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Commission for the New Towns v R Levy & Co Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review provisions in lease of shop — Landlords’ rent review notice ‘shall specify’ the proposed review rent — Time declared to be ‘of the essence’…
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Derby & Co Ltd v ITC Pension Trust Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954–Tenants’ application for new lease–Landlords’ claim that rent and other terms had been agreed and set out in engrossed but unexecuted underlease–Negotiations subject to contract broken…
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Damm v Herrtage
‘Anti-gazumping device’–Supposed oral contract combined with receipt for deposit–On facts, no binding contract ever made–Vice-Chancellor’s criticisms of device–‘Comes very near sharp practice and could easily be used as engine of…
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Plough Investments Ltd v Manchester City Council ; Same v Eclipse Radio & Television Services Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Works required to old office building — Whether repairs — Lessors’ covenant to keep exterior of building in repair — Lessees’ obligation to contribute a specified…
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Land Securities plc v Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District
Leasehold Property (Repairs) Act 1938 — Application for leave to bring an action for forfeiture of a lease and damages for breaches of repairing covenant — Appeal by tenant from…