Chancery Division, insolvency bankruptcy appeal. Acted as sole counsel for successful appellant.

Summary The Pensions Ombudsman should not interfere with decisions of trustees in relation to claims for benefits under the rules of their particular pension schemes unless the decision was perverse. In the circumstances, ombudsman was correct in holding that an employee was entitled to an incapacity pension under the company's...

Summary There was no common law election in the instant case between two inconsistent rights. Nor was there any basis on equitable principles to hold that the equitable doctrine of election applied where the defendant vendors of shares merely put forward an inconsistent contention without any express reservation or statement...

Summary The words "proceeds of...that property" in the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 s.77(8) included all proceeds derived from the property, irrespective of the nature of the process used to extract value from the property for transfer to another, whether by sale or mortgage or otherwise. Facts The appellant ...

Summary The applicant (K) applied for permission to appeal against an order that a judgment against him be set aside only on the condition that he make payment of an earlier costs order in favour of the respondent company (R). K had prior notice that R would seek to persuade...

Summary A master had been wrong to determine an application to strike out where the pleadings raised the same issue that had previously been decided by a judge. The master should have recognised that the application was an abuse of process. Facts The appellants Anglo Petroleum Ltd and Sutton (S)...

Summary It was natural to draw an inference of permission to remain on land, where a person was in possession pending negotiations for the grant of an interest in that land. In the instant case, there was an implied licence that the respondent company was being permitted to remain on...

Summary Where a sum claimed in respect of roll over relief was clearly wrong it necessarily followed that the accountants concerned had not applied the proper degree of care to the computation of it. Facts The appellant (M) appealed by way of case stated against the decision of the General...

Summary A substantial diminution in the amount of natural light reaching an office building was an interference with rights to light constituting a nuisance even though all the rooms of the property were habitually lit by artificial light whenever they were used. Facts The claimant freeholder (M) and leaseholders (L)...