Summary A defendant was entitled to indemnity costs in circumstances where an enormous amount of time, costs and court resource had been wasted as a result of the claimants' unwillingness to accept an amount, offered by the defendant in settlement, that they had been prepared to settle at only a...

Summary In determining the price to be paid by a nominated purchaser under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 for intermediate leases between the freehold and the leases of the participating tenants, the tribunal was to take into account the development value that could be realised if a...

Summary It was appropriate to maintain the appointment of provisional liquidators pending the hearing of a winding-up petition. The petition, founded on alleged indebtedness arising from assessments for VAT denying a company's claims to recover input tax on the basis that they were connected with the fraudulent evasion of VAT,...

Summary The court was not satisfied that a mother was acting fully independently or was liberated from undue influence when she transferred over 90 per cent of her estate to her daughter, which had had the effect of adeeming gifts of property to her two other children. Facts In conjoined actions,...

Summary It was not appropriate to grant summary judgment in favour of a public relations company in defamation and malicious falsehood proceedings in circumstances where there was a sufficient argument that the company was a joint tortfeasor as claimed and there was insufficient evidence to enable the court to determine...

Summary The right to appeal against tax assessments was not property capable of being sold within the meaning of the Insolvency Act 1986 Sch.4 Pt III para.6. A liquidator could therefore not assign the conduct of such an appeal to the liquidated company's former directors. Facts The applicant liquidator sought directions...

Summary The Lands Tribunal had been entitled to conclude that damage notices given under the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991 s.3 were valid. Facts The appellant authority appealed against a decision ([2012] UKUT 20 (LC), [2012] R.V.R. 157) that valid damage notices had been given by the respondents (N) under the Coal Mining...

Summary The court was prepared to hear a contemnor in opposition to a bank's application for a final charging order over a property, where the property was not the subject of the court order in respect of which the contemnor was said to be in breach. Facts The court was...

Summary The principle that it would be an abuse of process to challenge a decision in earlier proceedings where that would bring the administration of justice into disrepute was wide enough to encompass the situation where a person had not been a party to the earlier proceedings but only a...