Summary A judge had been entitled to reject an application to set aside a default judgment, even though the applicant had a real prospect of successfully defending the claim, where the application had been made almost a year after judgment. Permission to appeal against the rejection of the application was...

Summary In the first case since the coming into force of the Gambling Act 2005, an English court had to determine whether the conduct of a party to a gambling contract amounted to cheating for the purposes of the civil law. The use of a croupier as an innocent agent in...

Summary In accordance with the express terms of an agency agreement, a company which distributed financial products to independent financial advisers was entitled to override commission at a rate of 0.2 per cent of the value of all business placed by a large distributor with an organisation engaged in setting up...

Summary In a collective enfranchisement, no rule of law prohibited a valuation approach incorporating a "purchaser's margin", namely the difference between the amount a purchaser would pay for the freehold of the building with vacant possession of the short leasehold flats and the aggregate value of those flats if sold...

Summary A judge's construction of a clause in a lease agreement which would have required an assigning tenant not merely to procure a new guarantee but also a new guarantor was incorrect. The judge was correct to regard the whole of the proviso in the clause as being avoided by...

Summary On its proper construction, a third party legal charge was not restricted to securing the original £27 million loan facility granted by a bank to a property development company, but extended to further loan facilities, an overdraft, and loan facilities extended to related companies. Facts The court was required to...

Summary The claimant freeholders were granted summary judgment on their claim that the defendant lessees had breached lease agreements by assigning the leases to subsidiary companies without the freeholder's consent. Facts The applicant freeholders (T) applied for summary judgment on their claim against the respondent lessees (D) for declarations that...

Summary It was not appropriate to allow the well-known businessman Robert Tchenguiz to deploy, in unrelated proceedings in Guernsey, documents disclosed by the Serious Fraud Office in the instant action, being a claim for damages arising from unlawful search warrants issued by the Serious Fraud Office. Facts The first claimant ...