Summary John Dagnall appeared for three companies (C) who had acquired and developed two adjoining areas of registered land in Poole originally bought from the Canford Estate and subject to Restrictive Covenants. The First Defendant (D1) was a company which had bought the adjoining (originally private) road and an adjoining...

Summary A holder of certain loan notes backed by a securitised mortgage portfolio was entitled to pursue a claim in the English courts against the mortgage servicing agent that was domiciled in Portugal, as the claim was subject to an agreement conferring jurisdiction on the English courts and was within...

Summary On the evidence, a judge had been entitled to declare that a company was the beneficial owner of the four issued shares in a second company where it had established that it had been the common intention of all the parties involved that those shares were to be held...

Summary A leasehold valuation tribunal's decision that the development value of a property should be taken into account in assessing its marriage value upon enfranchisement was upheld. Facts The appellant company (F) appealed against the leasehold valuation tribunal's decision that the development value should be taken into account in assessing...

Summary The court ordered disclosure of parts of a settlement agreement necessary for the applicants to conduct their defences at trial, the disclosure did not extend to unlimited inspection of the agreement. Facts The first, second, fourth and fifth applicants (X) applied for specific disclosure and inspection of a settlement...

Summary The court considered various matters arising under the trusts of an inter vivos settlement dating from 1940 including the arithmetical approach and the proportionate approach to dealing with hotchpot and its jurisdiction under the Trustee Act 1925 s.57 to introduce powers of partition and appropriation. Facts The claimant trustees (T) applied...