Summary On the proper interpretation of a termination clause in an agreement for a lease of a hotel to be constructed at a motorway service station, the developer could not give notice to terminate the agreement by relying on its own failure to perform obligations to obtain required consents in...

Summary A dispute about the enforcement of rights under an agreement under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 s.106, if it was to be decided by a court, ought to be decided in judicial review proceedings to which the local planning authority was a party. Facts The appellant company (M)...

Summary The court construed an undertaking whereby the solicitors of a company held money another party had paid under a judgment, after the company had become insolvent and another judgment against the company had been given in the other party's favour. Facts The appellant creditor (P) of the second respondent...

Summary In the context of fraudulent misrepresentation it was possible for a claimant to plead an alternative case based on the defendant's version of events while continuing to deny that version. The requirement for a statement of truth did not prevent such a scenario as long as there was a...

Summary It was not appropriate to discharge an anti-suit injunction preventing the former owners of Liverpool Football Club from issuing proceedings in the United States in relation to the sale of the club. Facts The applicants (RBS and B) applied for permission to amend claims brought against the respondent former...

Summary Claims by a bank, controlled by the state of Kazakhstan, for repayment of sums of money from its former chairman, where the chairman denied the claims on the basis that the claims were politically motivated, were not actions that involved the direct enforcement of a foreign penal, revenue or...

Summary The claimant football club failed to establish on the evidence both that an oral contract had been concluded between it and a football promoter, and that there had been any breach of a warrant of authority by a director of a sports event management business in allegedly purporting to...

Summary An early termination provision in the contract between the parties was not subject to any reasonableness requirement. Facts The claimant (L) claimed damages for breach of contract against the defendant (T). T was a substantial commodities trading company with its principal offices in London and Switzerland. The group had...