Chancery Division
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Dennis & Robinson Ltd v Kiossos Establishment
Landlord and tenant — Construction of rent review clause — Declaration sought by tenants — Judge’s ‘realistic121 approach’ — Underlease for 25 years with four, five-yearly rent reviews — Material…
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Midland Bank plc v Chart Enterprises Inc
Landlord and tenant — Proposed assignment of lease — Unreasonable delay in communicating decision on consent and unreasonable refusal of consent — Provisions of Landlord and Tenant Act 1988 –…
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Marjorie Burnett Ltd v Barclay
Landlord and tenant — Whether lease created a ‘perpetually renewable leasehold’ operating as a demise for 2,000 years — Lease of shop premises with residential accommodation — Correct approach to…
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London Regional Transport v Imperial Group Pension Trust Ltd and another
Compulsory purchase — Effect of acquisition on a right of way and associated rights enjoyed by adjoining property — Acquisition governed by powers under section 14 of London Transport Act…
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Accuba Ltd v Allied Shoe Repairs Ltd
Rent review clause modelled on Form 8, 1 of the Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents held to contain provisions of the nature of ‘machinery’ rather than an ‘option’–Landlords some 18…
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Langham House Developments Ltd v Brompton Securities Ltd and another
Landlord and tenant–Questions of construction on a rent review clause in an underlease of premises comprising a shop on the ground floor, a showroom on the first floor and residential…
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Glofield Properties Ltd v Morley and another (No 2)
Landlord and tenant — Rent review provisions — Construction — The rent review clauses provided for the rent of a 15-year lease to be reviewed, after a fixed rent for…
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Field v Barkworth
Landlord and tenant — Construction of covenant in lease — Agricultural holding — Whether a covenant ‘not to assign or underlet any part of premises without the consent in writing…
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Marks v Warren
Preliminary point of law as to whether a covenant not to underlet or part with possession without landlord’s consent precluded assignment without such consent–Held that, despite absence of any reference…
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Hellings and another v Parker Breslin Estates
Negligence — Agents letting dwelling-house on basis of Rent Act 1977, Schedule 15, Case 11 — Whether agents negligent in not warning owner of Case 11 conditions for recovering possession
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Oldschool and another v Johns
Landlord and tenant–Rent review under lease of business premises–‘Open market rental value’ to be sum specified in a notice given by landlords unless either the parties agreed of a valid…