Summary A judge had been entitled, having taken full account of all the guidance to be derived from precedent and reached a decision with the benefit of his own evaluation, to find that a townhouse with past mixed residential and office use and no current use at all, was a...

Summary The court interpreted an indemnity clause in an agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in an insurance broking company. The clause covered loss caused by mis-selling only where such loss followed or arose from a claim or complaint by a customer to the Financial Services Authority or...

Summary The court interpreted an indemnity clause in an agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in an insurance broking company. The clause covered loss caused by mis-selling only where such loss followed or arose from a claim or complaint by a customer to the Financial Services Authority or...

Summary A profit a prendre giving sporting rights over a property could include the right to take game birds which were on the property, notwithstanding that the birds had been bred by humans. A game bird could be wild, and thus properly the subject of a profit, even if it...

Summary A property management company whose only income was from service charges could recover legal costs arising from a tenant's threatened proceedings against it as part of the service charge to be divided between all the tenants, as the terms of the lease were general enough to cover defence of...

Summary Although a deputy master had erred in his approach when refusing an application to amend a statement of case claiming payment for consultancy fees, he had reached the correct conclusion by refusing the amendments. The proposed new claims did not arise out of the same or substantially the same...

Summary A bank had owed a duty to business customers who had expressed a wish to change the interest on their borrowings from a variable rate to a fixed rate to explain the financial implications of doing so. That duty had been breached in the instant case. Facts The claimants...

Appeared for Homebase successfully striking out £1.2m claim against it for breach of contract. (Birmingham DR, March 2017)

Summary In proceedings relating to interest rate swap agreements, the court refused permission for expert evidence to be called regarding suitability requirements and the risks associated with the products sold. Facts The claimant applied for permission to call expert evidence in proceedings relating to interest rate swap agreements.The matters...