Summary Where a lease had been assigned by a tenant in breach of covenant, a re-assignment of the lease back to the original tenant, together with the guarantor of the original tenant's obligations giving a fresh guarantee, would not be invalidated by the Landlord and Tenant (Covenants) Act 1995 s.25 as...

Summary The court construed clauses in limited liability partnership agreements to determine the extent of the designated member's obligation to disclose tax documents to members who were seeking to establish that the partnerships had engaged in fraud. A clause requiring disclosure of "relevant information ... necessary for the administration of members'...

Summary There had been no good reason for ordering that a claimant's emailing a copy of a claim form to the defendant should be permitted as good service. Facts The appellant (B) appealed against a deputy master's order that the emailing to it of a claim form by the respondent ...

Summary A judge had not erred in approving a scheme put forward by the executor of an estate aimed at facilitating the resolution of personal injury claims against the estate. The scheme was neither intrinsically flawed nor one that no reasonable executor could have promoted. Facts The appellant trustees of...

Summary A judge had been right to refuse to allow a claimant to re-amend its particulars of claim. The proposed re-amendments fundamentally recast the particulars of claim, made it five times longer than the original, and did not contain a concise statement of the facts relied upon in support of...

Summary The strong public interest in preserving the integrity of criminal investigations and in protecting those who provided information to prosecuting authorities from any wider dissemination of that information outweighed the interests of a party bringing a claim for damages against the Serious Fraud Office in their disclosure, where that...

Summary The value at which a minority shareholder's shares in a family-run company were to be bought out under an unfair prejudice petition was to be assessed as at the date of the court order. That date had the advantage of certainty and was the most fair out of several...

Summary Although a judge had erred because, in refusing to set aside a statutory demand founded on a unpaid costs order, he had done so on the wrong basis, his decision was upheld because the counterclaim advanced by the subject of the demand in the underlying proceedings which had led...