Summary The exception from the prohibition of differential treatment on the grounds of sexual orientation under the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 reg.18 applied potentially to all types of benefit provided by a charity to persons of a particular sexual orientation in pursuance of a charitable instrument, whether or not...

Summary Where a freeholder of a property comprising separate apartments had granted a lease to a third party of the property's basement, which was used as a caretaker's flat, after a notice of a claim by tenants to exercise the right to collective enfranchisement had been registered, the lease was...

Summary The court awarded damages for trading losses suffered because of a breach of duty by a solicitor in failing to properly assist and advise a client in respect of the sale of the assignment of a business property lease. Facts The claimant company (H) sought damages from the defendant...

Summary The director, company secretary and an employee of a company which sold tickets for sporting events were liable for the torts of conspiracy to defraud by unlawful means and deceit where the company failed to deliver a single ticket it had sold for the 2008 Olympics. No one at the...

Summary It was not necessary to imply terms into an option-to-buy contract entered into by a property development company and the former owners of the freehold property to which the option related as the proposed terms were not necessary to make the agreement work. Facts The appellant former freehold owners ...

Summary Joining the legal owner to proceedings in respect of damage to property would suffice to enable the beneficial owner to recover, subject to the rules of remoteness and damage, for all the loss which it had suffered and it did not matter that the beneficial owner was not in...

Summary A company was entitled to be allocated land at a site it was developing with a second company where they had both previously agreed that the first company was due to receive land elsewhere which was later found to be incapable of development. Facts The claimant (B) sought a...

Summary A non-reliance clause in an agreement for lease excluded liability for innocent and negligent misrepresentations, but not fraudulent ones, and the claimant tenants failed to show that representations made by the landlord were false and fraudulently made. Facts The claimant tenants (T) claimed that they had entered into agreements...