Summary At the request of an executor of an estate, a court sanctioned a scheme which aimed to facilitate the resolution of personal injury claims against the estate in a speedy and inexpensive manner. Facts he applicant executor (N) applied for the court's approval of a scheme to facilitate the...

Summary Receivers' valuation of an estate was to be used in an application for a grant of administration of that estate where an issue had arisen as to the use of confidential information in that application. Facts The appellants (P) appealed against a decision (Elenin (aka Berezovsky) (Deceased), Re [2014] EWHC 70 ...

Summary The court had to determine whether a joint election under the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 s.171A was valid to enable a company to be deemed as having disposed of loan notes held by its sister company within the same corporate group. The notes, qualifying corporate bonds for...

Summary Where property leased by a company in administration was retained by the administrator for the benefit of the administration, under the salvage principle the administrator had to pay the rent during the period for which he retained the property. The rent was treated as accruing from day to day...

Summary The court determined that two applications in relation to the estate of Jimmy Savile should be heard in public. Facts The court had to determine whether two applications in relation to the estate of Jimmy Savile (J) should be heard in public. One application was brought by the executor ...

Summary A firm of solicitors which had acted in breach of trust by releasing trust money to a fraudster could not expect to persuade the court that it was fair to excuse it from liability on the basis that it had, in all respects connected with the loss, acted reasonably....

Summary A judge had been entitled to adopt a literal construction of the terms of a pre-emption right in a management lease. Facts The appellant investor (P) appealed against a decision ([2013] EWHC 1135 (Ch)) concerning the correct interpretation of a management lease and against a costs order made in favour of...

Summary Where a rent review clause provided that only the landlord could instigate a review and that the reviewed rent could not be less than the initial reserved rent, and where the landlord had instigated a review and increased the rent after the first review period but had not instigated...

Summary Where a solicitor had filed and served a costs budget on time, but failed to notice when signing it that the words "statement of truth" appeared next to his signature without the actual statement of truth being present, his error did not render the costs budget a nullity; it...