Court of Appeal
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Kay-Green and others v Twinsectra Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 — Whether landlord obliged to comply with purchase notice — Whether individual buildings or complex of buildings ‘premises’ for purposes of determining majority of qualifying…
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Grant and others v Gresham
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954–Possession of public house sought by freeholders from lessee–Whether Part II of Act applied to give lessee security of tenure–On-licensed premises excluded from Act, but exception…
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Finchbourne Ltd v Rodrigues
Service charges–Amount of lessee’s contribution to be ‘ascertained and certified by the lessors’ managing agents acting as experts and not as arbitrators’–Lessors subsequently discovered to be the managing agents themselves–Agents’…
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Holicater Ld v Grandred Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review — Time of the essence — Construction of clause providing for appointment of expert
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Price v Esso Petroleum Co Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II–Appeal by landlords from decision of county court judge on preliminary issues–New lease opposed by landlords under section 30(1)(f) satisfied–Whether section 31A(1)(a) applicable–Judge decided…
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Romulus Trading Co Ltd v Henry Smith’s Charity Trustees (No 2)
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II, sections 30(1)(f) and 31A(1)(a) and (b) — Two Court of Appeal and three county court hearings required to elucidate the application of these…
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Hurstfell Ltd v Leicester Square Property Co Ltd
Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, Part II, section 30(1)(b) — Alleged ‘persistent delay in paying rent’ — Appeal by landlord company from decision of county court judge who had granted…
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Evans v Clayhope Properties Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Receiver and manager appointed by the court to collect rents and manage a block of flats in poor repair on the Hart v Emelkirk basis –…
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Wolff and another v Enfield London Borough
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease — Construction — Effect of use clause in lease and planning permission — Lease provided for use of the demised premises…
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Thomas Langley Group v Royal Leamington Spa Borough Council (now Warwick District Council)
Compensation–Purchase notice–Successive planning permissions either inconsistent, or consistent only on the basis that the later one constituted an agreed variation of the rights conferred by the earlier one–By acting on…
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Williams and another v Wellingborough Borough Council
Council house re-taken by council mortgagees on default by purchasers–Transaction clothed in a ‘see-through dress’ by council as a purported exercise of a mortgagee’s power of sale–Transfer a nullity–No sale…