Summary There was no authority for the proposition that a full hearing on the merits was required in circumstances where a litigant had forfeited his right to a full trial by his own conduct of the litigation. The judge had been entitled to make orders whereby the appellant would be...

Summary A Roman Catholic charity failed to show that there were weighty and convincing reasons which justified a change to its memorandum of association to enable it to lawfully continue a discriminatory practice under the exemption in the Equality Act 2010 s.193 so that it could restrict its adoption services to...

Summary There were no grounds on which to imply into a transfer of part of farming land and buildings an easement of drainage in favour of the retained land, either on the basis of necessity, mutual benefit or to give effect to any intention as to the particular use of...

Summary A fair-minded observer would not conclude that there was a real possibility that a judge, who had made findings adverse to the first defendant when finding that he was in contempt of court, would be biased when deciding the issues at trial. In any event, the first defendant had...

Summary Where an Italian national domiciled in England made two wills, an earlier one in England and a later one in Italy, the former prevailed where the latter did not revoke it. That result was primarily because of the deceased's domicile, which rendered Italian law irrelevant. However, although different, the...

Summary The "Dicey rule", arising from the operation of common law and the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933, applied to foreign judgments in avoidance proceedings in insolvency. Facts In conjoined appeals brought by the appellants (E and G) against decisions of the Court of Appeal (Rubin v Eurofinance SA [2010] EWCA...

Summary Where a deed permitted the owner of a building to enter upon a neighbouring property to install windows, that did not permit the erection of scaffolding on the neighbouring land in order to take down a wall and replace it with glass panels. That was not changed by describing...

Summary Where a commercial lease provided a tenant with the full term in which to carry out required reinstatement works to the property, a surrender of the lease before expiry of the term released the potential liability. Also, the processes required by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 s.18(1) had to...

Summary Properties used entirely for commercial purposes were not "house[s] reasonably so called" for the purposes of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 s.2(1), whatever their original design or current appearance, or the fact that they might look like houses and might be referred to as houses for some purposes. Facts...