House of Lords
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Christopher Moran Holdings Ltd v Bairstow and another
Insolvency — Disclaimer of lease — Determination of loss and damage to landlord under section 178(6) of Insolvency Act 1986 — Loss of right to future rent — Whether discount…
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Hindcastle Ltd v Barbara Attenborough Associates Ltd and others
Landlord and tenant — Whether disclaimer of lease by liquidation of assignee company discharges liability of original tenant, earlier assignee and surety for arrears of rent
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Platform Home Loans Ltd v Oyston Shipways Ltd and others
Negligence — Valuation for non-status mortgage — Contributory negligence — Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 — Meaning of damage — Whether damage overall transaction loss or part of loss…
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Pickersgill and another v Motley; Ransom v Higgs; Lees and another v Grant; Dickinson v Downes; Kilmorie (Aldridge) Ltd v Dickinson
Schemes to avoid tax on the development value of land not defeasible on the basis that the controlling owner was engaged in ‘trade or an adventure in the nature of…
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Burrows v Brent London Borough Council
Landlord and tenant — Secure tenancy — Order for possession — Whether agreement not to execute order while conditions complied with by tenant creates new secure tenancy
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Dollar Land (Cumbernauld) Ltd v CIN Properties Ltd (Scotland)
Landlord and tenant — Conventional irritancy (forfeiture) — Unjust enrichment — Irritancy clause invoked — Whether landlord unjustly enriched — Whether tenant entitled to recompense remedy against landlord
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Nykredit Mortgage Bank plc v Edward Erdman Group Ltd (No 2)
Negligence — Mortgage valuation — Interest on damages — Section 35A of Supreme Court Act 1981 — Accrual of cause of action in tort — Whether plaintiff suffered damages at…
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British Railways Board v Secretary of State for the Environment and others
Town and country planning — Whether planning permission should be refused on ground that a desirable condition appears to have no reasonable prospects of fulfilment
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Porter v Honey
Estate agents’ boards — Town and country planning — Control of advertisements — Whether an estate agent, instructed to sell or let a residential property, commits an offence if, after…
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Swingcastle Ltd v Alastair Gibson (a firm)
Negligence — Mortgage valuation — Damages — Accrued mortgage interest — Important decision of House of Lords, reversing decision of Court of Appeal, on measure of damages — Review of…