Results: 39

• Phonographic Performance Ltd v AEI Rediffusion Music Ltd

  18 Jun 1997 [1998] Ch 187; [1997] 3 WLR 982; [1997] 3 All ER 560, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  COPYRIGHT — Broadcast — Sound recordings
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  COPYRIGHT — Broadcast — Sound recordings — Incidental copying for broadcasting purposes — Whether statutory right to make copies including right to retain copies more than 28 days after first use for broadcasting purposes — Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss 68, 135C(1) (as inserted by Broadcasting Act 1990, s 175(1))

  1 Statute considered
• In re Cosslett (Contractors) Ltd

  21 Dec 1995 [1997] Ch 23; [1996] 3 WLR 299; [1996] 4 All ER 46, Ch D

  29 Jul 1997 [1998] Ch 495; [1998] 2 WLR 131; [1997] 4 All ER 115, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 13.
  CONTRACT — Construction — Passing of property
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  CONTRACT — Construction — Passing of property — Coal washing plant on site for purposes of land reclamation — Contract deeming plant on site to be property of site owner — Whether property passing to site owner — Whether equitable proprietary interest in plant — Whether specific or floating charge

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Standard Form considered

• Long v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

  20 Mar 1996 [1998] Ch 197; [1996] 3 WLR 317; [1996] 2 All ER 683; 95 LGR 191, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Agreement for lease — Offer to grant tenancy

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Land, recovery of — Accrual of cause of action
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Agreement for lease — Offer to grant tenancy — Landlord's letter setting out terms endorsed by tenant — Tenant thereafter taking possession and paying rent — Whether letter creating lease “taking effect in possession” — Law of Property Act 1925, s 54(2)

  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Land, recovery of — Accrual of cause of action — Landlord offering in writing to grant tenancy — Tenant endorsing copy of letter, taking possession and paying rent — Payment of rent ceasing but tenant remaining in possession — Notice to quit served — Tenant claiming entitlement to premises by adverse possession — Date of accrual of landlord's right to recover premises — Whether letter “lease in writing” — Whether tenancy arising by operation of law — Limitation Act 1980, Sch 1, para 5(1)

  5 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Ashcroft

  26 Feb 1997 [1998] Ch 71; [1997] 3 WLR 319; [1997] 3 All ER 86, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 6.
  COMPANY — Director — Disqualification
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  COMPANY — Director — Disqualification — Disqualification proceedings based on liquidator's affidavit of interview with non-executive director — Whether parts of affidavit inadmissible as hearsay — Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, s 7

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Westminster City Council v Haywood

  22 Feb 1996 [1998] Ch 377; [1996] 3 WLR 563; [1998] ICR 920; [1996] 2 All ER 467, Ch D (Robert Walker J)

  28 Jan 1997 [1998] Ch 377; [1997] 3 WLR 641; [1998] ICR 920; [1997] 2 All ER 84, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 30.
  TRUSTS — Pension scheme — Maladministration
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  TRUSTS — Pension scheme — Maladministration — Local council pension scheme — Council unlawfully making additional payments to pensioner out of general rate fund — Pension subsequently reduced by amount of unlawful payments — Whether maladministration — Whether “complaint” suitable for investigation by Pensions Ombudsman — Whether ombudsman entitled to direct payment of compensation for distress and inconvenience — Pension Schemes Act 1993, ss 146(1)(2), 151(2)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Nationwide Building Society v Lewis

  23 May 1997 [1997] 1 WLR 1181; [1997] 3 All ER 498, Ch D

  24 Feb 1998 [1998] Ch 482; [1998] 2 WLR 915; [1998] 3 All ER 143, CA

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  PARTNERSHIP — Liability of employee — Holding out
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  PARTNERSHIP — Liability of employee — Holding out — Employee held out as partner — Advice ostensibly prepared by firm relied on by client causing loss — Employee not personally responsible for advice given — Whether estopped from denying responsibility for advice — Whether presumption in favour of reliance — Whether evidence of reliance — Whether jointly and severally liable for loss

  4 Case(s) considered
• Armitage v Nurse

  19 Mar 1997 [1998] Ch 241; [1997] 3 WLR 1046; [1997] 2 All ER 705, CA

  26 Jan 1998 (pet dis) [1998] 1 WLR 270, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 70.
  TRUSTS — Trustee — Breach of trust
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  TRUSTS — Trustee — Breach of trust — Exclusion of liability — Clause exempting trustee from liability for loss from any cause apart from own actual fraud — Whether excluding liability in absence of dishonesty — Whether repugnant to trust — Whether void on grounds of public policy — Whether trustees entitled to costs in absence of inquiry into their conduct

  3 Case(s) considered
• Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd

  23 Jul 1997 [1998] Ch 304; [1998] 2 WLR 225; [1997] 4 All ER 991; [1998] 1 FLR 6; (1998) 30 HLR 576; [1998] 1 FCR 417; (1997) 147 NLJ 1275; The Times, 31 July 1997; The Independent, 29 July 1997, CA (Waite, Roch and Ward LJJ)

  16 Oct 1997 (pet all) [1998] 1 WLR 697, ECJ

  28 Oct 1999 [2001] 1 AC 27; [1999] 3 WLR 1113; [1999] 4 All ER 705; [2000] 1 FLR 271; [2000] 1 FCR 21; (2000) 32 HLR 178; 7 BHRC 200; [2000] L & TR 44; The Times, 2 November 1999; The Independent, 2 November 1999, HL(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 3 neutral; 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 65.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Death of tenant
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Rent restriction — Death of tenant — Man living with tenant in homosexual relationship — Whether living as “his … wife or husband” — Whether “member of the original tenant's family” — Rent Act 1977 (as amended by Housing Act 1988, s 39(2), Sch 4, Pt I, paras 2, 3), Sch 1, paras 2(2), 3(1)

  10 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Mecklermedia Corpn v DC Congress GmbH

  07 Mar 1997 [1998] Ch 40; [1997] 3 WLR 479; [1998] 1 All ER 148, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Passing off
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction under European Convention — Passing off — Action in England for passing off — Existing action by defendant in Germany against plaintiff's licensee for breach of German trade mark — Whether proceedings in England involving same cause of action and between same parties — Whether German court first seised — Whether English court to stay proceedings or decline jurisdiction — Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982, Sch 1 (as substituted by Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (Amendment) Order 1990), arts 2, 5(3), 21, 22

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Dunbar v Plant

  23 Jul 1997 [1998] Ch 412; [1997] 3 WLR 1261; [1997] 4 All ER 289; [1998] 1 FLR 157, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive. Subsequent citations: 15.
  PUBLIC POLICY — Administration of estates — Suicide
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  PUBLIC POLICY — Administration of estates — Suicide — Survivor of suicide pact claiming deceased's assets — Whether criminally complicit in suicide — Whether forfeiture rule applying to aiding and abetting suicide — Whether rule to be modified Suicide Act 1961, s 2(1) — Forfeiture Act 1982, s 2(1)

  1 Case considered

  2 Statutes considered