Summary The tribunal found that a registered social landlord had not been established for purposes that were exclusively charitable and was therefore not entitled to extend the charitable exemption from corporation tax under the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 s.505 and s.506 to tax years pre-dating its registration as a...

Summary The court construed a lease in a way that the court considered a reasonable person would have understood the parties to have meant by the words they actually used. Facts The claimant (S) brought construction and rectification claims in respect of a sub-sub-underlease which it had entered into with...

Summary Where landlords had served on their tenants a valid notice under a break clause in the lease of commercial premises and a valid notice under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 s.25, and had established a valid ground of opposition to a new tenancy under s.30(1)(f) by demonstrating their...

Summary A judge had been right to reject a company's proprietary claim to the proceeds of sale of shares which its director had held in another company; although the proceeds could not have been obtained had the director not enjoyed his fiduciary status, they were not beneficially owned by the...

Summary On the proper interpretation of a termination clause in an agreement for a lease of a hotel to be constructed at a motorway service station, the developer could not give notice to terminate the agreement by relying on its own failure to perform obligations to obtain required consents in...

Summary A dispute about the enforcement of rights under an agreement under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s.106, if it was to be decided by a court, ought to be decided in judicial review proceedings to which the local planning authority was a party. Facts The appellant company (M)...

Summary The court construed an undertaking whereby the solicitors of a company held money another party had paid under a judgment, after the company had become insolvent and another judgment against the company had been given in the other party's favour. Facts The appellant creditor (P) of the second respondent...

Summary In the context of fraudulent misrepresentation it was possible for a claimant to plead an alternative case based on the defendant's version of events while continuing to deny that version. The requirement for a statement of truth did not prevent such a scenario as long as there was a...