Summary Payment by a target company of the fees of accountants retained by the purchaser to prepare a long form report amounted to unlawful financial assistance within s.151 Companies Act 1985. Facts Defendant's ('SWP') appeal from that part of an order of Davis J dated 26 April 2002 by which he dismissed SWP's...

Summary The Registrar had been entitled to refuse an application for an adjournment of directors disqualification proceedings and to conclude that the appellant had been a director of the subject company at the material time. Facts Appeal by the claimant ('F') from a decision of Register Baister by which he...

Summary A house and a mews flat linked by a basement and a door were not a single "house" for the purposes of s.1(1) Leasehold Reform Act 1967. Facts Appeal by the respondent landlord from a decision of the Court of Appeal by which it allowed an appeal by the applicant...

Summary In sanctioning the commencement of proceedings for breach of equitable and/or fiduciary duty against a court-appointed receiver of a partnership business, the court would only permit the proposed claimant to pursue those losses suffered by him in his capacity as a partner, and not as a disappointed purchaser,...

Summary In sanctioning the commencement of proceedings for breach of equitable and/or fiduciary duty against a court-appointed receiver of a partnership business, the court would only permit the proposed claimant to pursue those losses suffered by him in his capacity as a partner, and not as a disappointed purchaser,...

Summary Putting pressure on a tenant to sell a lease back was not a good ground for the landlord to withhold consent to alterations to leasehold property. Facts Applications by the tenant ('T') for a declaration that the defendant landlord ('D') had unreasonably withheld its consent to proposed alterations to...

Summary By a pre-emption agreement between the parties the defendant did not acquire an equitable interest in land unless the claimant accepted a purchase offer by it. In the circumstances the cautions lodged by the defendant should be vacated. Facts Application by the claimant ('SSL') to vacate cautions registered on...

Summary The degree, if any, to which the value in money or money's worth of the benefit of a life assurance policy as at the date of its assignment to the defendant was affected by the knowledge that the insured was shortly to undergo hazardous surgery was a matter for...

Summary The Solicitors Accounts Rules overrode any contractual duty of confidence that might subsist between solicitor and client. Facts Application by the claimant for a declaration as to whether or not he had breached r.27 Solicitors Account Rules 1991 ('the Rules') by refusing to comply with the defendant's requirement to produce...