The Newgate Stud Co & Newgate Stud Farm LLC v (1) Anthony Penfold (2) Penfold Bloodstock Ltd (2004)

Judgment Date: 21 Dec 04

Summary A director and agent of companies was in breach of the self-dealing rule because he failed to obtain informed consent to sales when partnerships in which he was interested acquired race horses from those companies. Facts The claimant companies (C) claimed against the first defendant director (D1) for breach...

Cambridge Antibody Technology v (1) Abbott Biotechnology Ltd (2) Abbott GMBH & Co KG (2004)

Judgment Date: 20 Dec 04

Summary On the proper construction of royalty-sharing provisions in agreements licensing the use of the claimant's genetic engineering technology by the defendant pharmaceutical companies, the defendants were not entitled to offset half of the royalties paid to third parties in respect of parts of the process for producing a drug...

Clear Channel UK Ltd v Manchester City Council (2004)

Judgment Date: 14 Dec 04

Summary An agreement for the erection and use of advertising hoardings had been not intended to grant a tenancy of the land on which they were built to the company that had erected the hoardings. Facts The claimant company (C) sought a declaration that it held tenancies of 13 advertising sites...

Riverside Property Investments Ltd v Blackhawk Automotive (2004)

Judgment Date: 08 Dec 04

Racing UK Ltd v (1) Doncaster Racecourse Ltd (2) Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (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...

R (On The Application Of Tull) v Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court & Anor (2004)

Judgment Date: 26 Nov 04

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...

Wormall v Wormall (2004)

Judgment Date: 25 Nov 04

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...

In The Matter Of World Of Marble Ltd Sub Nom Secretary Of State For Trade & Industry (2004)

Judgment Date: 15 Nov 04

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...

Fattal v Keepers & Governors Of The Possessions Revenues & Goods Of The Free Grammar School (2004)

Judgment Date: 30 Oct 04

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...