Case summaries
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Standard Life Co Ltd v Greycoat Devonshire Square Ltd
Long lease of commercial premises – Lessee obliged to pay additional rent expressed as a percentage of amounts received from occupying tenants – Departing tenant making payment to lessee in…
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Wards Construction (Medway) Ltd v Barclays Bank plc and another; Barclays Bank plc v Kent County Cou
Acquisition of land for highway purposes — Land required to provide access to development land — Court of Appeal holding that compensation principle correctly applied — Whether order land had…
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Connaught Restaurants Ltd v Indoor Leisure Ltd
Underlease — Provision in underlease that rent to be paid without deductions — Whether tenants’ equitable right of set-off thereby excluded — Official Referee holding it was — Court of…
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Elitestone Ltd v Morris and another
Owner of land seeking possession – Occupier of bungalow on land resisting on grounds of tenancy from year to year and protection under Rent Act 1977 – Judge deciding bungalow…
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R v North Devon District Council, ex parte Tarn
Council approving proposal for housing estate to be accessed via entrance to driveway leading to historic house – Whether council misinterpreted policy provisions intended to safeguard hedgerows and setting of…
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R v Rowde Parish Council, ex parte Ibbetson
Applicant seeking to quash decision of respondent parish council to construct bus shelter – Applicant contending that shelter interfering with access to land – Whether respondents properly exercising their discretion…
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Citibank International plc v Kessler and another
Bank applying for possession order – Mortgagor claiming bank’s refusal to consent to letting of property resulted in restriction of freedom of movement – Application to strike out part of…
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Dutton v Sheffield City Council
Striking out — Interlocutory proceedings — Caravan site — Private law claim against local authority — Plaintiff contending that agreement for lease for reallocation of site existed — Council maintaining…
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P&O Property Holdings Ltd and others v Norwich Union Life Insurance Society
Construction of shopping centre — Consortium financed by insurance society — Units remaining unlet — Construction of agreement — Whether society can unilaterally insist that reverse premiums paid to attract…
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C & G Homes Ltd v Secretary of State for Health
Covenants — Dwelling-houses — No business user — No detriment to transferor or other occupiers — Houses occupied by mental patients — Whether breach of covenants — Declaration granted to…
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Miskin and another v St John Vaughan (a firm)
Defendant negligently failing to serve notice terminating tenancy – Tenancy terminated one year later as a result – Claimants unable to sell property until tenancy terminated – Judge awarding claimants…