Legal
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Supreme Court hears Brexit appeal
The government today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a controversial High Court ruling that Article 50, the mechanism for withdrawing from the European Union, cannot be triggered without parliamentary…
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Eatherley v Camden London Borough Council
Town and country planning Certificate of lawful development
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Eatherley v Camden London Borough Council
Town and country planning – Lawful development certificate – Permitted development – Claimant applying for judicial review of defendants’ decision to grant lawful development certificate for basement development – Whether…
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General Motors UK Ltd v Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd
Licence Relief from forfeiture
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General Motors UK Ltd v Manchester Ship Canal Co Ltd
Licence – Relief from forfeiture – Discretion – Defendant purporting to terminate claimant’s right to discharge surface water into canal – Claimant seeking relief from forfeiture – Whether court having…
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A legal battle to rescind a conditional contract was lost for want of a correctly placed negative
The aim of the court, when interpreting a provision in a contract, is to determine what the parties meant by the language used and, when doing so, the court will…
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Engbers v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning Planning appeal
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Engbers v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and another
Town and country planning – Planning appeal – Procedural fairness – Proposed residential development to include construction of pedestrian footway – Statements of common ground between respondent developer and local…
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The right to be heard in a valuation
In Kateb v de Walden Estate and another [2016] EWCA Civ 1176 the Court of Appeal has decided that an agreement between a landlord and a claimant leaseholder on the…
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Neighbour triumphs in challenge to basement PDR decision
A judge today quashed a Camden Council decision to the effect that a basement development could be carried out under permitted development rights (PDRs).
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Helix 3D Ltd v Dunedin Industrial Property Nominee Ltd and another
Landlord and tenant, Option to purchase