Cleaver & Ors v Schyde Investments Ltd (2011)

Judgment Date: 29 Jul 11

Summary The judge was entitled to hold that the Standard Conditions of Sale (4th edition) 7.1.3 was not fair and reasonable in the circumstances and was therefore of no effect by virtue of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 s.3 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 s.11 with the result that a purchaser of...

Playup Interactive Entertainment (UK) PTY Ltd v Givemefootball Ltd (2011)

Judgment Date: 28 Jul 11

Summary The defendant was in repudiatory breach of a sponsorship agreement by failing to deliver e-mail and text message marketing programmes to the promised number of recipients. Facts The claimant (P) claimed repayment of certain sums under a sponsorship agreement with the defendant (G) and damages for breach of contract,...

Philip Towers v Premier Waste Management Ltd (2011)

Judgment Date: 28 Jul 11

Summary A company director had breached his fiduciary duty to the company when accepting a free loan of equipment from a customer without disclosing the transaction or seeking approval for it. Facts The appellant former director (T) appealed against a decision that he had breached his fiduciary duty to the...

R H Ashcroft & Sons Ltd v Robert Daniel Macer Ashcroft & James Angus Ashcroft (Third Party) (2011)

Judgment Date: 28 Jul 11

Summary The court granted a declaration regarding the existence and termination of a management agreement governing the way in which a family-owned company operated its three farms. Facts The claimant family farming company claimed an injunction to restrain the defendant family member (R) from farming certain fields and from using...

Newspaper Licensing Agency Ltd & 6 Ors v Meltwater Holding BV, Meltwater News UK Ltd

Judgment Date: 27 Jul 11

Summary A web end-user licence was required to lawfully use and receive content in the form of clippings and headlines sourced by media monitoring organisations that trawled a multitude of websites using search terms selected by the end-user. That was because the copies passed on to the end-users were not...

Dineshkumar Jeshang Shah v Chandrakant Jeshang Shah (2011)

Judgment Date: 26 Jul 11

Summary The court determined the valuations of assets held by a company in which a minority shareholder had been unfairly prejudiced so that the shareholder could realise the value of his shares. Facts The court was required to determine the valuation and manner of disposal of shares in a company...

Bank of Scotland v Mazamal Hussain (2011)

Judgment Date: 25 Jul 11

Summary Summary judgment was granted to a bank to enforce a personal guarantee given by the owner of a property development company to secure an overdraft facility given to the company where the guarantee had clearly been entered into, the company had breached the overdraft facility terms and the bank...

In the Matter of Rayford Homes Ltd v Bank of Scotland Plc & Barclays Wealth Trustees Ltd (2011)

Judgment Date: 23 Jul 11

Summary On the proper construction of an intercreditor agreement to which a bank and a trustee were parties, together with the company they funded, the bank's priority as a secured creditor of the company was limited, but not to the figure of £27.5 million as contended by the trustee. Facts The...

Rees v Peters (2011)

Judgment Date: 21 Jul 11

Summary On its true construction, and in the light of subsequent events, a clause contained in a 1957 conveyance entitled the successors in title to the benefit of a restrictive covenant contained in that original conveyance. Facts The appellants (R) appealed against a decision that a restrictive covenant contained in a...