Summary The court interpreted a side letter to a lease, under which a landlord granted a rent concession to a tenant. A termination provision provided that if the tenant breached the terms of the side letter or lease it would need to pay the higher rent contained in the lease,...

Summary Where a claimant had waived privilege in certain documents for the purpose of rebutting a suggestion that he had fabricated allegations, the defendant's application for further disclosure on the ground of collateral waiver was refused because the material in respect of which further disclosure was sought was not part...

Summary A landlord was liable for the cost of remedial works to remove asbestos and of alternative warehouse accommodation whilst those works were carried out where it had misrepresented to the tenant, in its replies to pre-contract enquiries, that it had no knowledge of any environmental problems affecting the property....

Summary A car distributor was not liable for any losses sustained by its two remaining franchisee dealerships after it had scaled back its operation following its notice to terminate the franchise agreement. The nature of the franchisees' claim required them to show that the distributor had breached an obligation to...

Summary A company subject to rehabilitation proceedings had failed to discharge the onus of showing that in all probability an order that it provide security for costs would stifle its claim; it had failed to demonstrate that there were no creditors who could put up the necessary finance and it...

Summary The court refused to grant the claimant probate of an alleged will of his mother, holding that he had forged the will. Facts The claimant asked the court to grant probate of the alleged last will of his mother, and to revoke the grant of probate to the defendant,...

Summary The court considered the relief that should be granted to a successful claimant under the Insolvency Act 1986 s.423. Facts The court considered consequential matters following the judgment in [2016] EWHC 1686 (Ch), [2017] Bus. L.R. 82. The main judgment concerned proceedings brought by the claimant companies for breach of duty against a...

Summary Certain amendments to particulars of claim were allowed where they did not distort and extend the trial. The amendments related to evidence that had arisen from German trades that were part of alleged VAT fraud involving the sale and purchase of European Union allowances under the European Emission Trading...

Summary The court was required to determine consequential and costs issues after giving judgment on an application for permission to continue proceedings against two companies in administration, and an application by the administrators to be indemnified out of trust assets under the principle in Berkeley Applegate (Investment Consultants) Ltd (No.1),...