Summary Time is not to be presumed as of the essence in a rent review clause in the absence of any indication in the lease to the contrary. Facts Appeal by tenant in business lease as to ruling that time was of the essence in the provisions for rent review...

Summary Third party proceedings against minister constitute "crown proceedings" and must be tried in London. Facts Appeal by the Secretary of State for the Environment against direction that trial of an action in which he had been joined by the defendant as a third party should take place in Newcastle....

Summary Necessity for care and co-operation in preparing bundles of documents Facts The court emphasised the necessity for care, attention and co-operation between parties in preparing bundles of documents for trial in a case in which many documents had not been agreed, many were irrelevant and many had been duplicated....

Summary Landlord's refusal to consent to assignment of a lease to a party intending to determine the lease held to be reasonable. Facts The tenant under a business lease containing a covenant not to assign without the landlord's consent not to be unreasonably withheld, assigned to a company which went...

Summary Where dismissal from employment on grounds of incapacity may amount to "retirement". Facts Appeal from dismissal of plaintiff's claim to a pension against the trustees of a pension fund under which plaintiff would have been entitled to a pension on "retirement from service with her employers by reason of...

Summary Application by BCCI directors to discharge worldwide Mareva injunctions against them made on the ex parte application of the liquidators of BCCI International (Overseas) Ltd, a Cayman Islands company wound up by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on 14 January 1992, and as to declarations that the applicants had...