Summary The principle that it would be an abuse of process to challenge a decision in earlier proceedings where that would bring the administration of justice into disrepute was wide enough to encompass the situation where a person had not been a party to the earlier proceedings but only a...

Summary A public house operator had more than a fanciful chance of establishing at trial that its agent had been dishonest and in breach of fiduciary duty by acting for another party in finding suitable property that it might well have wanted to buy. Further, most of a statement by...

Summary The court determined a number of issues arising out of a dilapidations claim and held that the damages payable to the landlord for the tenants' breach of their repairing obligations would be limited by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 s.18(1) to the diminution in value of the reversion. Facts...

Summary The court made declarations that certain real property and pension funds were the realisable assets of a person convicted of fraud and money laundering and subject to a confiscation order. Facts The applicant receiver applied for orders in relation to properties and pension funds which he alleged were part...

Summary An order under which a small firm of solicitors would deliver up documents and information required by liquidators to fulfil their duty under the Insolvency Act 1986 s.234 and s.236 could be drafted in a way that was not draconian in its demands on the resources of the firm, but...

Summary Where an investor in a shopping centre had pre-emption rights under a lease to increase its share of the shopping centre's net rents if another investor exercised an option, but the other investor decided to cancel its option before the lease was executed, the lease was not to be...

Summary The court awarded costs on an indemnity basis following its decision to set aside a liability order in favour of a bank on the basis that the bank had obtained it by fraud, and following its decision to uphold a refusal to grant an anti-suit injunction to the bank....