Results: 123

• Aglionby v Cohen

  23 Feb 1955 [1955] 1 QB 558; [1955] 2 WLR 730, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 5.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Notice to quit — Notice ignored by tenant
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Notice to quit — Notice ignored by tenant — Action to recover possession of premises — Judgment for possession — Tenant continues to occupy premises — Whether landlord entitled to enter premises and retain possession without carrying out further legal procedure.

• Lloyds Bank Ltd v Jones

  02 May 1955 [1955] 2 QB 298, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Covenant — Waiver of breach

  COURT OF APPEAL — County Court — Appeal from

  AGRICULTURE — Agricultural holding — Notice to quit. Waiver. Estoppel by conduct. Arbitration
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Covenant — Waiver of breach — Tenant's covenant to inhabit farm — Death of tenant — Liability of trustees of will — Acquiescence in one trustee only inhabiting farm — Effect — Agricultural holding — Notice to quit — Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 63), s. 24 (2) (d).

  COURT OF APPEAL — County Court — Appeal from — Jurisdiction — Consultative case from arbitrator under Agricultural Holdings Act — “Decision” of county count judge — “Direction” — Whether appeal lies from decision of county court judge — County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), s. 105 — Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 63), s. 77 (1), Sch. VI, para. 24.

  AGRICULTURE — Agricultural holding — Notice to quit. Waiver. Estoppel by conduct. Arbitration — Agricultural holding.

  1 Statute considered
• R v Rowe

  19 Apr 1955 [1955] 2 WLR 1056, CCA

  19 Apr 1955 [1955] 1 QB 573, CCA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 6.
  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal
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  CRIME — Criminal law — Appeal — Parties — Death of appellant — Application for leave to appeal by widow — Sentence of imprisonment — Widow no legal interest in quashing of conviction — Widow not entitled to proceed with appeal.
• Schneider v Leigh

  30 Mar 1955 [1955] 2 WLR 904, CA

  30 Mar 1955 [1955] 2 QB 195, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 7.
  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Discovery
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  PRACTICE — Practice and procedure — Discovery — Privilege — Limited to litigant — Medical report obtained by defendants for purpose of litigation — Paragraphs of report sent by defendants' solicitors in letter to plaintiff's solicitors, and shown by them to plaintiff — Action for libel commenced by plaintiff against doctor — Defence of privilege by doctor — Whether legal professional privilege possessed by defendants in first action extends to the defendant in a second action.
• Bull v Bull

  [1955] 2 WLR 78, CA

  [1955] 1 QB 234, CA

  21 Dec 1964 [1968] P 618; [1963] 3 WLR 1048; [1965] 3 WLR 1048; [1965] 1 All ER 1057, PDA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 1 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 28.
  TENANTS IN COMMON — Realty — Dwelling-house

  FRAUD — Fraud to court (discretion to refuse order) — Divorce

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Discretion
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  TENANTS IN COMMON — Realty — Dwelling-house — Joint purchase by mother and son as residence — Unequal shares — Conveyance in name of son — Legal ownership — Claim by son to eject mother — Equitable tenants in common — Rights of — Law of Property Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 20), ss. 1 (6), 14, 26 (3), 30 and 35 — Settled Land Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 18), s. 36 (4) — Trustee Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 19), s. 14.

  FRAUD — Fraud to court (discretion to refuse order) — Divorce — Petitioner's false denial of adultery

  HUSBAND AND WIFE — Divorce — Discretion — Failure to pray for exercise — Denial of adultery by petitioner — Setting up of false case on oath — Repeated deception by petitioner — Considerations affecting exercise of discretion — Considerations telling in favour weighed against considerations telling against exercising discretion

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered

• Dean v Wiesengrund

  04 May 1955 [1955] 2 QB 120, CA

  Subsequent citations: 10.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Standard Rent

  STATUTE — Construction — Expressio unius exclusio alterius.
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Standard Rent — Rent in excess paid by tenant — Death of tenant — Right of executor to recover — Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 14 (1) — Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 41), s. 1 (1).

  STATUTE — Construction — Expressio unius exclusio alterius.

  1 Statute considered

• In Re A Solicitor, In Re A Taxation of Costs

  11 Jan 1955 [1955] 2 QB 252; [1955] 2 WLR 281, QBD

  11 Jan 1955 [1955] 2 QB 252; [1955] 2 WLR 1058, CA

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  SOLICITOR — Costs — Lump or gross sum charge
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  SOLICITOR — Costs — Lump or gross sum charge — “Contentious” business — “Non-contentious” business — Client's petition for judicial separation prepared — Change of solicitor before filing of petition — Whether first solicitor entitled to submit lump or gross sum bill — Whether matters contained in bill wholly non-contentious — Solicitors' Remuneration Order, 1953 (S.I. 1953, No. 117 (L.1)), Sch. 2.

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• R v Judge Fraser Harrison, Ex Parte The Law Society

  13 Jan 1955 [1955] 1 QB 287, DC

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 1.
  LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property recovered
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  LEGAL AID — Costs — Charge on property recovered — Plaintiff legally aided — Nil contribution — Compromise of action — £500 paid into court for plaintiff by defendants — No order as to costs — Whether £500 subject to charge for benefit of legal aid fund — Legal Aid and Advice Act, 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6, c. 51), s. 3 (4).

  1 Statute considered

• Adler v Upper Grosvenor Street Investment Ltd

  20 Dec 1956 [1955] 1 QB 158; [1957] 1 WLR 227, QBD

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assignment or underletting of lease — Consent
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assignment or underletting of lease — Consent — Residential flat — Covenant not to assign or underlet without consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld — Proviso to covenant that tenant offer to landlord surrender of lease before asking for consent to assign — Effect of proviso — Separate covenant — Whether void — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 36), s. 19 (1) (a).

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Diploma Laundry Ltd v Surrey Timber Co Ltd

  06 Jul 1955 [1955] 3 WLR 404, CA

  06 Jul 1955 [1955] 2 QB 604, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 3.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Act of 1954 — Business premises
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Act of 1954 — Business premises — Tenants' request for a new tenancy — Landlord's notice of opposition — Occupation for purposes of landlords' business — “Interest of landlord” by purchase or creation — “Landlord” at time when request made — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2, c. 56), ss. 30 (1) (g), (2), 44.

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Act of 1954 — Business premises — Tenants' request for a new tenancy — Landlords' notice of opposition — Occupation for purposes of landlords' business — “Interest of landlord” by purchase or creation — “Landlord” at time when request made — Landlord and Tenant Act, 1954 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2, c. 56), ss. 30 (1) (g), (2), 44.

  2 Statutes considered