Summary Where a claimant had suffered loss by reason of an error on the land register and was entitled to an indemnity by virtue of s.83(2) Land Registration Act 1925 it was not appropriate to apply a "but for" test in considering whether the claimant's loss had been caused "wholly" as...

Summary Agreements under which the claimants were appointed as the defendants' agents for the purpose of procuring new customers for the defendants in the newly deregulated gas and electricity supply industries were governed by the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 SI 1993/3053. Facts Trial of two preliminary issues to determine whether...

Summary Applications for directors' disqualification made by the Official Receiver fell under the Insolvent Companies (Disqualification of Unfit Directors) Proceedings Rules 1987 SI 1987/2023. An appeal from a decision of the county court to grant leave for a disqualified director to act for another company was to be heard by a single...

Summary Applications for directors' disqualification made by the Official Receiver fell under the Insolvent Companies (Disqualification of Unfit Directors) Proceedings Rules 1987 SI 1987/2023. An appeal from a decision of the county court to grant leave for a disqualified director to act for another company was to be heard by a single...

Summary The Legal Aid Board's appeal committee had failed to identify reasons for the revocation of the applicant's legal aid certificate. Therefore its decision was quashed on judicial review and the case remitted for rehearing. Facts The applicant ('X') challenged by way of judicial review a decision by the appeal...

Summary Claimants' appeal from the decision of Laddie J on the trial of a preliminary issue as to the effect upon these proceedings of a settlement agreement ('the agreement') made between the claimants and the third parties. Facts The defendants submitted, and Laddie J held, that the effect of the...

Summary The case concerned questions of construction and as to priorities under the development contract documentation in issue

Summary The claimant did not make out a case for the exercise of the court's discretion under RSC O.46 r.2 to prolong the period of six years from the registration of a German judgment in England so as to entitle him to permission to issue execution. Facts Claimant's appeal from...

Summary In considering the time at which a lender was to be imputed to have knowledge of negligent overvaluation of a property for the purposes of s.14A Limitation Act 1980, the question was the time at which it would have been reasonable for a prudent lender to have sought a...