Results: 20

• Smith Kline Beecham plc v Apotex Europe Ltd

  26 Jul 2005 [2005] EWHC 1655 (Ch); [2006] 1 WLR 872; [2006] 2 All ER 53, Ch D

  23 May 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 658; [2007] Ch 71; [2006] 3 WLR 1146; [2006] 4 All ER 1078, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral. Subsequent citations: 26.
  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Undertaking as to damages
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  INJUNCTION — Interlocutory — Undertaking as to damages — Undertaking given to defendants — Whether benefit of undertakings impliedly extending to third parties affiliated to defendants — Whether defendants entitled to claim in restitution — Whether defendants entitled to claim in respect of third party losses — Whether defendants' pleaded claims in estoppel to be struck out — CPR Pt 25 Practice Direction, para 5.1(1)

  13 Case(s) considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered
• Cawthorne v Hamdan

  24 Jan 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 6; [2007] Ch 187; [2007] 2 WLR 185; [2007] 2 All ER 116, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 5.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenants' right to acquire reversion
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenants' right to acquire reversion — Qualifying tenants' notice to landlord to exercise collective right to enfranchise — Part of premises subject to assured shorthold tenancy — Landlord's counter-notice admitting right to enfranchisement and making no leaseback proposals — Subsequent leaseback notice — Whether leaseback notice valid — Whether landlord entitled to leaseback — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, ss 21(3)(a), 36(2), Sch 9, para 5

  1 Statute considered

• Majorstake Ltd v Curtis

  08 Aug 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1171; [2007] Ch 300; [2006] 3 WLR 1114; [2006] 4 All ER 1326, CA

  14 Dec 2006 (pet all) [2008] UKHL 10; [2008] AC 787; [2007] 1 WLR 319; [2008] 2 WLR 338; [2008] 2 All ER 303, HL(E)

  Subsequent citations: 11.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Adjoining properties
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Adjoining properties — Tenant of flat claiming right to acquire new lease — Landlord resisting new lease on ground of intention to redevelop premises in which flat contained — Landlord's intention to combine tenant's flat with flat below to form duplex apartment — Whether two flats together “any premises in which the tenant's flat is contained” — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, s 47

  1 Case considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Dingmar v Dingmar

  12 Jul 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 942; [2007] Ch 109; [2006] 3 WLR 1183; [2007] 2 All ER 382; [2007] 1 FLR 210, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 2.
  FAMILY PROVISION — Surviving spouse — “Reasonable financial provision”
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  FAMILY PROVISION — Surviving spouse — “Reasonable financial provision” — Widow and children living in property held immediately before his death by husband and defendant as beneficial joint tenants — Defendant as sole owner claiming possession — Whether widow entitled to deceased's beneficial half share — Valuation of deceased's half share — Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, ss 2(1), 9(1), 25(1)

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• Meretz Investments NV v ACP Ltd

  30 Jan 2006 [2006] EWHC 74 (Ch); [2007] Ch 197; [2007] 2 WLR 403; [2006] 3 All ER 1029, Ch D

  11 Dec 2007 [2007] EWCA Civ 1303; [2008] Ch 244; [2008] 2 WLR 904, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 64.
  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Cause of action estoppel

  MORTGAGE — Sale by mortgagee — Mortgagee's duty

  TORT — Cause of action — Conspiracy
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  ESTOPPEL — Per rem judicatam — Cause of action estoppel — Claims for breach of contract — Previous actions concerning same contracts — Whether claimants able to allege in subsequent proceedings that same incident amounting to breach of different obligation under same contracts — Whether abuse of process to advance arguments which could have been raised in previous actions

  MORTGAGE — Sale by mortgagee — Mortgagee's duty — Mortgagee exercising power of sale of development lease in order to realise security — Whether improper purpose — One of mortagagee's purposes to recover debt due — Whether mortgagee requiring purity of purpose in order for sale to be valid — Sale preventing mortgagor fulfilling contractual obligations — Whether contractual rights affected by sale protected by remedy in damages

  TORT — Cause of action — Conspiracy — Unlawful means conspiracy — Inducing breach of contract — Second claimant granting development lease to first defendant — First defendant granting charge over lease to second defendant — Second defendant selling lease to fifth defendant in exercise of mortgagee's power of sale — Defendants aware that sale rendering fulfilment of first defendant's contractual obligations to claimants impossible — Whether defendants having necessary intention to induce breach of contract or to cause loss — Whether intention capable of subsisting where defendant believing himself entitled to act as he did to protect his interests — Whether inducement or unlawful means where loss resulting from defendant's exercise of contractual right

  16 Case(s) considered
• Cattley v Pollard

  07 Dec 2006 [2006] EWHC 3130 (Ch); [2007] Ch 353; [2007] 3 WLR 317; [2007] 2 All ER 1086, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 4.
  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Fraudulent breach of trust — Dishonest assistance
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  LIMITATION OF ACTION — Fraudulent breach of trust — Dishonest assistance — Trustees bringing claim for fraudulent assistance in breach of trust — Whether exception to normal limitation period applying — Whether rule preventing time running against beneficiaries with future interest applying where claim brought by trustees — Limitation Act 1980, s 21(1)(3)

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Regan v Paul Properties DPF No 1 Ltd

  26 Oct 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1319; [2007] Ch 135; [2006] 3 WLR 1131; [2007] 4 All ER 48, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 7.
  NUISANCE — Light — Right to light
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  NUISANCE — Light — Right to light — Development work on property opposite claimant's maisonette affecting access to light — Injunction to prevent infringement refused but award of damages in substitution — Whether onus on claimant to establish damages inadequate remedy

  2 Case(s) considered
• Kent v Kavanagh

  02 Mar 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 162; [2007] Ch 1; [2006] 3 WLR 572; [2006] 2 All ER 645, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 3.
  EASEMENT — Right of way — Grant
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  EASEMENT — Right of way — Grant — Adjacent plots let under building leases by common owner — Pathway between plots with boundary on mid-line — Common owner conveying freehold of both plots to tenants pursuant to rights to enfranchisement — Whether tenants having right of way under leases over half of pathway within other plot — Whether right of way conveyed on enfranchisement — Law of Property Act 1925, s 62(2) — Leasehold Reform Act 1967, s 8(1)

  3 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• Ruddy v Oakfern Properties Ltd

  25 Oct 2006 [2006] EWCA Civ 1389; [2007] Ch 335; [2007] 3 WLR 524; [2007] 1 All ER 337, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 1 positive. Subsequent citations: 12.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Covenant — Service charge
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Covenant — Service charge — Freeholder letting part of building to mesne landlord — Mesne landlord subletting flats to subtenants — Mesne landlord's obligation under head lease to pay maintenance charge — Subtenants' obligations under sublease to pay proportion of maintenance charge — Subtenant applying for determination of amount of service charge payable — Whether mesne landlord “tenant of a dwelling” — Whether maintenance charge “service charge” — Whether subtenant having standing to apply for determination — Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, ss 18(1) (as amended by Landlord and Tenant Act 1987, s 41, Sch 2, para 1), 27A (as inserted by Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, s 155), 38

  1 Case considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered
• In re Taylor (A Bankrupt)

  03 Apr 2006 [2006] EWHC 3029 (Ch); [2007] Ch 150; [2007] 2 WLR 148; [2007] 3 All ER 638, Ch D

  Subsequent considerations : 2 negative. Subsequent citations: 8.
  BANKRUPTCY — Jurisdiction — Leave to bring proceedings

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Decision at first instance — How far binding
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  BANKRUPTCY — Jurisdiction — Leave to bring proceedings — Proceedings against bankrupt commenced after bankruptcy order made — Leave not obtained — Whether proceedings nullity — Insolvency Act 1986, s 285 (3)

  JUDICIAL PRECEDENT — Decision at first instance — How far binding — Whether court to regard itself as bound by court of co-ordinate jurisdiction

  5 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered