Summary Where the defendant was the accidental owner of a small piece of land that it never intended to acquire from the claimant and that was of no use to it except as a means of extracting a ransom payment from the claimant, rectification of the transfer and of the...

Summary The words "the landlord intends" in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 s.30(1)(f) meant that a landlord could only establish opposition to the grant of a new business tenancy on that ground if he had made a fixed and settled decision to proceed with the construction work described in...

Summary The Covent Garden Market Act 1961 s.18(1)(f) did not confer on the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs a power to grant consent to the Covent Garden Market Authority to grant leases to sell meat or fish, or meat or fish products, at the horticultural market...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...