Summary Where a charity acquired property, the exemption from stamp duty land tax provided by the Finance Act 2003 Sch.8 applied in respect of that proportion of the beneficial interest that was attributable to the undivided share held by the charity for qualifying charitable purposes. Facts The appellants (P and K),...

Summary The defendant surveyors had not been negligent in failing to identify compression failure as the cause of cracking in the brickwork of a 19th century mill building purchased by the first claimant. Facts The claimants (X) brought a claim in negligence against the defendant surveyors (P). X were institutional...

Summary A transaction whereby a farm worker transferred two agricultural holdings to the proprietors of a farm where he had lived all his working life had not been procured by undue influence and was not an unconscionable transaction. The farm worker regarded the proprietors as members of his family and...

Summary A defendant was entitled to indemnity costs in circumstances where an enormous amount of time, costs and court resource had been wasted as a result of the claimants' unwillingness to accept an amount, offered by the defendant in settlement, that they had been prepared to settle at only a...

Summary In determining the price to be paid by a nominated purchaser under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 for intermediate leases between the freehold and the leases of the participating tenants, the tribunal was to take into account the development value that could be realised if a...

Summary It was appropriate to maintain the appointment of provisional liquidators pending the hearing of a winding-up petition. The petition, founded on alleged indebtedness arising from assessments for VAT denying a company's claims to recover input tax on the basis that they were connected with the fraudulent evasion of VAT,...

Summary The court was not satisfied that a mother was acting fully independently or was liberated from undue influence when she transferred over 90 per cent of her estate to her daughter, which had had the effect of adeeming gifts of property to her two other children. Facts In conjoined actions,...

Summary It was not appropriate to grant summary judgment in favour of a public relations company in defamation and malicious falsehood proceedings in circumstances where there was a sufficient argument that the company was a joint tortfeasor as claimed and there was insufficient evidence to enable the court to determine...

Summary The right to appeal against tax assessments was not property capable of being sold within the meaning of the Insolvency Act 1986 Sch.4 Pt III para.6. A liquidator could therefore not assign the conduct of such an appeal to the liquidated company's former directors. Facts The applicant liquidator sought directions...