Court of Appeal
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Dickinson v Enfield London Borough Council
Landlord and tenant — Secure tenancy — Housing Act 1985 — Rent review — Whether effect of statutory right to buy to be disregarded — Whether extensive works carried out…
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Phillips v Mobil Oil Co Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Covenant to renew at request of lessee — Whether an estate contract requiring to be registered as a land charge in order to be effective against…
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McCall v Abelesz and another
A civil action for harassment lies at a tenant’s suit for breach of a term of the tenancy, but not for breach of statutory obligation under section 30 (2) of…
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Chiswell v Griffon Land & Estates Ltd
Business tenancy–Landlord or tenant who sends notice by ordinary post runs the risk of losing his rights under the Act of 1954 should the letter go astray–To be safe, he…
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Guys ‘n’ Dolls Ltd v Sade Brothers Catering Ltd
Landlord and tenant — Rent review clause in lease of commercial premises — Construction of clause — Clause provided that after the first review date the rent of the premises…
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Co-operative Retail Services Ltd v Secretary of State for the Environment and others
Town and Country Planning Act 1971–Secretary of State’s refusal to postpone date of public inquiry–Whether this action was a ‘decision by the Secretary of State on an appeal under section…
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Secretary of State for Social Services v Rossetti Lodge Investment Co Ltd
Parties agree in principle on a new lease of business premises from 29.9.72 at rent to be fixed–Counter-inflation orders supervene–New rent of £5,000 nevertheless ‘standard rate of rent’ for purposes…
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Khazanchi and another v Faircharm Investments Ltd and others ; McLeod v Butterwick
Landlord and tenant — Distress — Walking possession agreement — Whether bailiff and sheriff entitled forcibly to re-enter to remove goods
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Withey Robinson (a firm) v Edwards
Estate agency — Professional charges — Instructions by client intending to purchase a night-club to firm of chartered surveyors ‘to provide valuations orally of the premises and business, to prepare…
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National Westminster Bank Ltd v Betchworth Investments Ltd
Notice exercising right to break lease–Whether sent to tenant’s ‘last known address’–Yes–Last known address of tenant company its registered office, not the address of an associated firm of managing agents…
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Spath Holme Ltd v Chairman of the Greater Manchester and Lancashire Rent Assessment Committee and others
Rent Acts — Assessment of fair rents — Whether rent assessment committee entitled to prefer evidence of other registered fair rents in preference to evidence of rents of assured tenancies
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Norwich Union Life Insurance Society v Low Profile Fashions Ltd and others
Landlord and tenant — Liability of original tenant following assignment — Whether term can be implied into lease that landlord should take care in consenting to assignment — Whether landlord…