Summary Counsel's opinion complied with the provisions of a share purchase agreement. The opinion could only be considered at face value for those purposes and it was not open to the defendant to go behind it and challenge the legal or factual basis on which it was given. Facts Applications...

Summary Where a solicitors' firm contended that there had been an equitable assignment of the benefit of an insurance policy in its favour, the court was not satisfied that the second claimant had made a sufficiently clear act of assignment of the insurance fund. * Application for leave to appeal to...

Summary Payments made by the first claimant to the first defendant under a failed development agreement were not recoverable as advance payments of future remuneration, but were irrecoverable introduction fees. The second defendant had no defence to a claim by the remaining claimants for specific performance of a share sale...

Summary The appeal judge had been right to differ from the trial judge's findings of fact and to find that the defendant tenant was entitled only to an assured shorthold tenancy and not an assured tenancy. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords refused. Facts Appeal by the defendant...

Summary The appellant owned and operated the Half Moon Hotel at Montego Bay, Jamaica. Facts The respondent owned the adjacent Holiday Inn. Between the Half Moon Hotel and the Holiday Inn were three strips of land belonging to the Holiday Inn. Those lands were acquired by the appellant in 1966 and...

Summary Under s.196(4) Law of Property Act 1925 service on a lessor by either registered post or recorded delivery was deemed to be on a presumed date of delivery regardless of when delivery of the registered letter or recorded delivery in fact took place. Facts Appeal by the claimant landlord ('WX')...

Summary A landlord's proposed works amounted to a demolition or reconstruction of an "eggshell" premises and, therefore, satisfied the grounds for opposing a new tenancy under s.30(1)(f) Landlord and Tenant Act 1954. Facts Appeal by a tenant ('T') of ground floor shop premises let by the respondent landlords ('L'), from...

Summary A settlement agreement between the first defendant and a third party had not had the effect of extinguishing the third party's claim against the present claimants, with the consequence that the present claimants could look to the first defendant for a contribution towards the damages that they had been...

Summary There was nothing procedurally unfair about the decision of inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to complete and deliver their report into the appellant's conduct in relation to three companies without allowing him an opportunity to answer in writing the provisional criticisms made of...