The General Trading Company (Holdings) Ltd v Richmond Corporation Ltd (2008)

Judgment Date: 03 Jul 08

Summary The buyer of a business had not been entitled to cancel certain loan notes on the ground of the seller's failure to procure the provision of loan guarantees because the non-provision was the result of the buyer's own failure to serve a contractual notice and not the result of...

John Astall & Graham Edwards v Revenue & Customs Commissioners (2008)

Judgment Date: 27 Jun 08

Summary A security issued as part of a tax avoidance scheme was not a "relevant discounted security" within the meaning of the Finance Act 1996 Sch.13 para.3 because the terms upon which it might possibly be redeemed at a deep gain would never occur. Facts The appellant taxpayers (X) appealed against...

Earl Cadogan & Ors v 26 Cadogan Square Ltd : Howard De Walden Estates Ltd v Aggio & Ors (2008)

Judgment Date: 25 Jun 08

Summary A lessee under a long lease of a block of flats, none of which was subject to long underleases, was entitled to claim the benefit of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 Part I Chapter II in relation to each of the flats at the same time...

Photolibrary Group Ltd & Ors v Burda Senator Verlag GMBH (2008)

Judgment Date: 18 Jun 08

Summary On the evidence, it was clear that a contract for the supply of analogue photographic transparencies incorporated the terms of the delivery notes. The delivery notes provided that loss fees were payable in the event of loss and there was an established course of dealing to show that the...

Halifax PLC v Curry Popeck (A Firm) (2008)

Judgment Date: 18 Jun 08

Summary On the facts, a transfer of land was not made for valuable consideration because it was part of a fraudulent enterprise in which the concept of consideration was meaningless. Accordingly, the general rule in the Land Registration Act 2002 s.28 applied so that an equitable interest created before the transfer...

Chilli Developments Ltd v Commission for the New Towns (2008)

Judgment Date: 18 Jun 08

Summary The Commission for the New Towns had not breached exclusivity agreements with a development company concerning the redevelopment of docks and neither the commission nor an associated urban regeneration body had acted in bad faith throughout the negotiations or during the lifetime of the agreements. Facts The claimant company ...

Knowles v Knowles (2008)

Judgment Date: 13 Jun 08

Summary There was no evidence that the defendant had not been able to comply with consent and unless orders in a possession claim as a result of his mental disability. In granting orders for possession and execution of the possession order against the defendant the judge had taken account of...

Angela Scotcher v Kirklees Borough Metropolitan Council (2008)

Judgment Date: 11 Jun 08

Summary Local authorities with a duty of care to protect vulnerable adults would not be burdened with a duty of care to employees of residential care homes in respect of the sharing of information as to their care practices where to do so might discourage, undermine or inhibit the expression...

Barlow Clowes International Ltd (In Liquidation) v Peter Henwood (2008)

Judgment Date: 23 May 08

Summary As a matter of law, a domicile of choice was not lost if a person merely moved away without having decided whether to move permanently, but it did not follow as a matter of law that if a person moved from his place of domicile of choice without having...