Liability
-
Tyco Fire & Integrated Solutions (UK) Ltd (formerly Wormald Ansul (UK) Ltd v Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd (formerly Hireus Ltd)
Construction contract – Insurance obligations – Liability for negligence – Construction of manufacturing plant – Respondent engaged to install sprinkler system – Flooding causing damage to plant and contents –…
-
Fraser and another v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance and another
Trust for sale – Liability
-
Fraser and another v Canterbury Diocesan Board of Finance and another
School Sites Act 1841 – Reverter giving rise to trust for sale – Liability for proceeds of sale of land – Whether reverter occurring when first or second defendant owner…
-
PP 2007/15
For historical reasons, some properties in England and Wales are burdened with chancel repair liability, while others are not. Section 2 of the Chancel Repairs Act 1932 provides that, where…
-
PP 2007/03
A lease creates an estate in land, but it is also a contract. One of the ordinary principles of contract law is that parties to a contract must take reasonable…
-
Commissioners for Customs & Excise v Isle of Wight Council
Local authority — Whether VAT payable on receipts from off-street parking — Whether possible to interpret provisions of Value Added Tax Act 1994 consistently with article 4.5 of Directive 77/388/EEC…
-
West Bromwich Building Society v Wilkinson and another
Mortgage — Sale of property — Personal obligation to pay shortfall — Date when cause of action accruing — Whether claim time-barred — Limitation Act 1980 — Appeal allowed
-
R (on the application of Bennett) v Copeland Borough Council
Council tax — Appellant owning property but not residing there — Appellant living a nomadic lifestyle — Whether property appellant’s sole or main residence — Appeal allowed
-
Regentford Ltd v Thanet District Council
Council tax — Liability order — Jurisdiction to make order — Date tax becoming due — Whether date when amount of tax set or date of demand for payment –…
-
Loftus-Brigham and another v Ealing London Borough Council
Tree root damage — Test of causation — Judge holding liability established if trees dominant cause of damage to appellants’ property — Whether judge applying wrong test — Appeal allowed
-
Williams v Horsham District Council
Council tax — Sole or main residence — Appellant owning cottage but living elsewhere with wife for work purposes — Valuation tribunal finding appellant liable for full council tax on…