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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Summary Where there was a provision in an agreement to purchase a property requiring forfeiture of monies already paid by way of part-payment on the occurrence of the forfeiting event, relief from forfeiture might be available in equity as a matter of the court's discretion if, and to the extent...

Summary The court considered the entitlement to commission and obligations relating to non-solicitation of clients and the use of confidential information in a six-month "wind down" period following the termination of agreements relating to the provision of "branded trading" of contracts for differences and spread betting. Facts The appellant (C)...

Summary An amendment to a claim to alter the capacity of the claimant claimed from a personal one to a representative or derivative one was permitted, as the new representative claim arose out of the same or substantially the same facts as the existing claim. Facts The claimant (B) applied...

Summary The disclosure by receivers of information received from an individual to third parties would not violate his right to protection from self-incrimination or under the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 art.6(2) since a bank which had brought committal proceedings against him had undertaken not to deploy any information disclosed...