Summary Business tenant's application for a declaration that the landlord's withholding of consent to an assignment of a lease of a warehouse to Safeway Stores Plc was unreasonable. Facts Application by the plaintiff tenant for a declaration against the 1st defendant as the original landlord and the second defendant as...

Summary Whether consent given to assignment of lease by correspondence marked "subject to licence"

Summary RSC O.20 r.5(2) and (3) permit the correction of the name of a party even though the effect is to substitute a new party and although a limitation period has expired. Those rules apply to an application to renew a business tenancy under Part II of the Landlord and Tenant...

Summary A request for a new business tenancy under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 was valid where the landlord had changed under the Railways Act 1993. Facts Railtrack appealed from the refusal of a County Court judge to strike out, as being an abuse of process, an originating application issued against...

Summary What documents should be disclosed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to respondent directors in Company Directors Disqualification Act proceedings. Facts Applications for disqualification against four former directors of Astra Holdings Plc in which the respondent directors sought an order for inspection under RSC O.24 r.13...

Summary Whether vesting order should be made under s.51 Trustee Act 1925 in respect of intellectual property vested in company immediately before its dissolution. Facts This was an appeal from an order of Laddie J on 15 November 1996 dismissing an application made by originating summons. The relief claimed was a vesting order...