Riverside Property Investments Ltd v Blackhawk Automotive (2004)
Judgment Date: 08 Dec 04
Summary On the evidence, the chief executive of a racecourse management company had apparent or ostensible authority to sign an agreement with the claimant company granting it television picture rights, which was binding upon the racecourse owner. Facts The claimant company (C) sought to enforce a purported agreement with the...
Summary Liability orders made against the applicant had to be set aside as she had not been properly served notice. Facts The applicant (T) applied for judicial review of the decision of the defendant magistrates' court (C) to make a number of liability orders against her and its decision to...
Summary The minimum remedy that was required to do justice to a party was sufficient to satisfy equity. Facts The appellant (W) appealed an order that he pay compensation to the respondent (R). W had consented to R, who was his daughter, using land that he owned. W had withdrawn...
Summary In determining the question of unfitness to be concerned in the management of a company under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 s.6 it was not enough just to look at what happened in the company and say that all the directors were to blame and must therefore be found...
The assumption in the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 s.9(1A)(d) that the price for enfranchising a freehold was to be diminished by the extent to which the value of the house had been increased by tenant's improvements did not require the value of the potential for improvement to be excluded...
Summary Friendly societies - dissolution of friendly society - distribution of assets - construction of rules of society - members not entitled on dissolution - bona vacantia
Summary A scheme that involved collecting money from the public and placing bets on horse races on their behalf was a collective investment scheme. The scheme was operated without authorisation in breach of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 s.19. Facts The claimant (FSA) applied for summary judgment in a...
Summary An injunction restraining the defendants from denying that one or other of the claimants was their agent would not be granted where the claimants had failed to plead a cause of action justifying it. Facts The claimants (T) applied for an injunction restraining the defendants (C) from denying that...