Summary Necessity for care and co-operation in preparing bundles of documents Facts The court emphasised the necessity for care, attention and co-operation between parties in preparing bundles of documents for trial in a case in which many documents had not been agreed, many were irrelevant and many had been duplicated....

Summary Landlord's refusal to consent to assignment of a lease to a party intending to determine the lease held to be reasonable. Facts The tenant under a business lease containing a covenant not to assign without the landlord's consent not to be unreasonably withheld, assigned to a company which went...

Summary Where dismissal from employment on grounds of incapacity may amount to "retirement". Facts Appeal from dismissal of plaintiff's claim to a pension against the trustees of a pension fund under which plaintiff would have been entitled to a pension on "retirement from service with her employers by reason of...

Summary Application by BCCI directors to discharge worldwide Mareva injunctions against them made on the ex parte application of the liquidators of BCCI International (Overseas) Ltd, a Cayman Islands company wound up by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands on 14 January 1992, and as to declarations that the applicants had...

Summary Two unregistered charges the later entered as a caution : Entering a caution as to a later charge gives no priority over an earlier charge Facts Held Appeal as to decision holding that noting a charge as a caution could give no priority over an earlier charge, dismissed. Decision of...

Summary Statutory tenant may claim to have property which liquidator has disclaimed vested in him Facts When a liquidator disclaims property under s.178 Insolvency Act 1986 as onerous property, a statutory tenant has locus standi to apply for vesting the property in him under s.181 Insolvency Act 1986. Held