Results: 45

• Carey Group plc v AIB Group (UK) plc

  11 Mar 2011 [2011] EWHC 567 (Ch); [2012] Ch 304; [2012] 2 WLR 564; [2011] 2 All ER (Comm) 461; [2011] WLR (D) 86, Ch D (Briggs J)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Public law of foreign state

  CONTRACT — Implied term — Duty to exercise discretion personally
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  CONFLICT OF LAWS — Jurisdiction — Public law of foreign state — Enforcement — Foreign statutory agency — Scheme under foreign statute for acquisition by agency of bank assets from participating institutions — Bank willing voluntarily to comply with acquisition process — Claimants seeking injunctions restraining agency from enforcing acquisition process within jurisdiction and bank from complying with it — Whether implementation of acquisition process unlawful exercise of sovereign power

  CONTRACT — Implied term — Duty to exercise discretion personally — Bank granting claimants secured lending facilities under facility agreement — Whether implied term that bank exercise discretions under agreement personally

  4 Case(s) considered

• In re New Cap Reinsurance Corpn Ltd (New Cap Reinsurance Corpn Ltd v Grant)

  15 Mar 2011 [2011] EWHC 677 (Ch), Ch D (Lewison J)

  09 Aug 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 971; [2012] Ch 538; [2012] 2 WLR 1095; [2012] Bus LR 772; [2012] 1 All ER 755; [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 1207; [2011] BCC 937; [2011] BPIR 1428; [2011] WLR (D) 274, CA (Mummery, Lloyd, McFarlane LJJ)

  24 Oct 2012 [2012] UKSC 46; [2013] 1 AC 236; [2012] 3 WLR 1019; [2013] Bus LR 1; [2013] 1 All ER 521; [2013] 1 All ER (Comm) 513; [2012] 2 Lloyd's Rep 615; [2012] BPIR 1204; The Times, 9 November 2012; Case details, SC(E) (Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Lord Mance, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, Lord Sumption JJSC, Lord Collins of Mapesbury)

  Subsequent citations: 59.
  INSOLVENCY — Liquidation — Foreign company
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  INSOLVENCY — Liquidation — Foreign company — Liquidators of foreign companies seeking to enforce in England judgments of United States and Australian courts to recover moneys transferred to defendants before liquidation — Defendants claiming not to have been present in or submitted to jurisdiction of foreign courts — Whether judgments in personam — Whether ordinary rules for enforcing judgments in personam inapplicable to bankruptcy proceedings — Whether judgments enforceable at common law — Whether alternative method of enforcement through international assistance provisions of Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency — Statutory provisions allowing English court to “assist” Australian court in insolvency matter and for registration and enforcement of Australian judgment in “civil or commercial” matter — Whether either provision allowing English court to enforce Australian judgment against defendants — Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933, ss 4, 6 — Insolvency Act 1986, s 426 — Reciprocal Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (Australia) Order 1994, art 4(a) — Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006, Sch 1, arts 2, 21

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Words & Phrases considered

  2 Statutes considered

  2 Statutory Instruments considered

• Crosstown Music Co 1 LLC v Rive Droite Music Ltd

  02 Nov 2010 [2010] EWCA Civ 1222; [2012] Ch 68; [2011] 2 WLR 779; [2011] Bus LR 383; [2010] WLR (D) 277, CA

  Subsequent citations: 8.
  COPYRIGHT — Assignment — Reversion
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  COPYRIGHT — Assignment — Reversion — Songwriters assigning UK and foreign copyrights to claimant's predecessor — Agreements providing for automatic reversion of rights on occurrence of material breaches that had been notified but not remedied — Agreements expressed to be subject to English law and conferring exclusive jurisdiction on English courts — Whether automatic reverter of copyright on unidentified and uncertain future event falling within transmission of copyright permitted by statute — Whether reverter provision taking effect according to its terms — Whether dispute as to reversion of foreign copyrights justiciable in English courts — Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 90(2)

  2 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered
• Pitt v Holt

  18 Jan 2010 [2010] EWHC 45 (Ch); [2010] 1 WLR 1199; [2010] 2 All ER 774; [2010] STC 901; [2010] WLR (D) 2, Ch D (Robert Englehart QC)

  09 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 197; [2012] Ch 132; [2011] 3 WLR 19; [2011] 2 All ER 450; [2011] STC 809; [2011] WLR (D) 84, CA

  01 Aug 2011 (appn all) [2011] 1 WLR 1977, SC(E)

  09 May 2013 [2013] UKSC 26; [2013] 2 AC 108; [2013] 2 WLR 1200; [2013] 3 All ER 429; [2013] STC 1148; [2013] WLR (D) 172; Case details, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 positive; 2 neutral. Subsequent citations: 82.
  DEED — Mistake — Application to set aside

  MENTAL DISORDER — Receiver — Settlement

  TRUSTS — Trustee — Duty of trustee
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  DEED — Mistake — Application to set aside — Voluntary disposition — Receiver creating discretionary trust and settling proceeds of patient’s damages claim on it for future care — Receiver failing to take into account inheritance tax consequences of discretionary trust when settlement established — Whether equitable relief on grounds of mistake available

  MENTAL DISORDER — Receiver — Settlement — Receiver on advice creating discretionary trust and settling proceeds of patient’s damages claim on it for his future care — Receiver and advisers failing to take into account inheritance tax consequences of discretionary trust when settlement established — Whether settlement to be set aside on ground of inadequate deliberation

  TRUSTS — Trustee — Duty of trustee — Trustees on advice exercising discretionary powers of enlargement and advancement for purpose of avoiding potential capital gains tax liability — Advisers giving incorrect advice on capital gains tax consequences of transaction — Whether enlargement and advancements to be set aside on ground of inadequate deliberation

  22 Case(s) considered

• Panter v Rowellian Football Social Club

  20 May 2011 [2011] EWHC 1301 (Ch); [2012] Ch 125; [2011] 3 WLR 1147; [2011] WLR (D) 170, Ch D (Judge Behrens sitting as a High Court judge)

  INSOLVENCY — Administration order — Jurisdiction
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  INSOLVENCY — Administration order — Jurisdiction — Insolvent football and social club — Creditor applying for appointment of administrators — Whether club “association” — Whether “company” — Whether jurisdiction to make administration order — Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended by Enterprise Act 2002, s 248(2), Sch 16, Insolvency Act 1986 (Amendment) Regulations 2005, reg 2(4)(b) and Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009, Sch 1, para 76(2)), s 220, Sch B1, para 111(1A)(c)

  2 Case(s) considered

  2 Words & Phrases considered

  1 Statute considered

• Smith v Jafton Properties Ltd

  02 Nov 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 1251; [2012] Ch 519; [2012] 2 WLR 527; [2011] WLR (D) 314, CA

  Subsequent citations: 4.
  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenant's right to acquire reversion
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  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Leasehold enfranchisement — Tenant's right to acquire reversion — Claimants purchasing lease of freehold property and assigning to company — Company converting property into four flats and transferring two flats to each claimant separately and common parts jointly — Whether each claimant sole tenant of two flats or joint tenant of all four flats — Whether claimants qualifying tenants — Whether entitled to enfranchisement — Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993, ss 5, 101(3)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Baron Mereworth v Ministry of Justice

  23 May 2011 [2011] EWHC 1589 (Ch); [2012] Ch 325; [2012] 2 WLR 192; [2011] WLR (D) 217, Ch D

  PARLIAMENT — Peerage — Hereditary peers
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  PARLIAMENT — Peerage — Hereditary peers — Hereditary peer seeking declaration that entitled to writ of summons — Right to sit and vote in House of Lords — Whether within exclusive cognisance of Parliament — Whether court having jurisdiction to determine claim — House of Lords Act 1999, s 1

  2 Case(s) considered

• Swift 1st Ltd v Colin

  27 Jul 2011 [2011] EWHC 2410 (Ch); [2012] Ch 206; [2012] 2 WLR 186; [2011] WLR (D) 263, Ch D

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  MORTGAGE — Sale by mortgagee — Statutory power
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  MORTGAGE — Sale by mortgagee — Statutory power — Deed of mortgage creating charge by way of legal mortgage — Mortgage not registered as legal charge — Mortgagee selling mortgaged property — Land Registry declining to register purchasers’ title on ground charge unregistered — Whether mortgagee having power to sell when charge unregistered — Whether mortgagee’s deed of conveyance effective to vest title of property in purchasers — Law of Property Act 1925, ss 88(1), 101(1)(6), 104(1)

  1 Case considered

  1 Statute considered
• Fulham Football Club (1987) Ltd v Richards

  01 Dec 2010 [2010] EWHC 3111 (Ch); [2011] Ch 208; [2011] 2 WLR 1055; [2011] 2 All ER 112; [2011] 1 All ER (Comm) 714; [2010] WLR (D) 312, Ch D

  21 Jul 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 855; [2012] Ch 333; [2012] 2 WLR 1008; [2012] Bus LR 606; [2012] 1 All ER 414; [2012] 1 All ER (Comm) 1148; [2011] WLR (D) 241, CA

  Subsequent considerations : 3 positive; 3 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 25.
  COMPANY — Unfair prejudice — Conduct of affairs
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  COMPANY — Unfair prejudice — Conduct of affairs — Company and member agreeing to refer disputes and differences between them to arbitration — Member presenting unfair prejudice petition against company — Whether court should stay petition — Whether rule of public policy or statutory restriction making unfair prejudice disputes non-arbitrable — Whether dispute outside of scope of arbitration clause — Arbitration Act 1996, s 9 — Companies Act 2006, s 994

  6 Case(s) considered

  2 Statutes considered
• North Shore Ventures Ltd v Anstead Holdings Inc

  21 Jun 2010 [2010] EWHC 1485 (Ch); [2010] Bus LR D116; [2011] 1 All ER (Comm) 81; [2010] 2 Lloyd's Rep 265, Ch D (Newey J)

  09 Mar 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 230; [2012] Ch 31; [2011] 3 WLR 628; [2011] Bus LR 1036; [2011] 2 All ER (Comm) 1024; [2011] 2 Lloyd's Rep 45; [2011] BLR 757; [2011] WLR (D) 80, CA (Sir Andrew Morritt C, Smith, Tomlinson LJJ)

  12 Jul 2011 (appn dis) [2011] Bus LR 1181, SC(E)

  Subsequent considerations : 2 neutral; 1 negative. Subsequent citations: 9.
  GUARANTEE — Construction — Extent of guarantor’s liability

  GUARANTEE — Debt — Surety's liability
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  GUARANTEE — Construction — Extent of guarantor’s liability — Lender certifying sums due from guarantors under terms of guarantee — Variation in interest provisions of loan agreement — Whether certificate of indebtedness manifestly incorrect — Whether guarantors entitled to rely on variation to reduce liability

  GUARANTEE — Debt — Surety's liability — Disclosure — Guarantee for loan — Scope of creditor’s duty to disclose unusual facts to prospective guarantor

  9 Case(s) considered