Summary Claimants' appeal from the decision of Laddie J on the trial of a preliminary issue as to the effect upon these proceedings of a settlement agreement ('the agreement') made between the claimants and the third parties. Facts The defendants submitted, and Laddie J held, that the effect of the...

Summary The case concerned questions of construction and as to priorities under the development contract documentation in issue

Summary The claimant did not make out a case for the exercise of the court's discretion under RSC O.46 r.2 to prolong the period of six years from the registration of a German judgment in England so as to entitle him to permission to issue execution. Facts Claimant's appeal from...

Summary In considering the time at which a lender was to be imputed to have knowledge of negligent overvaluation of a property for the purposes of s.14A Limitation Act 1980, the question was the time at which it would have been reasonable for a prudent lender to have sought a...

Summary "Use" in Case B, Sch.3 Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 did not have the meaning attributed to it by s.336 Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and did not exclude building and other operations. * Leave to appeal to the House of Lords refused. Facts Landlords' appeal and tenant's cross-appeal from the decision...

Summary The claimant's goods had been taken into the charge of the carrier's agent when the latter started to unload them from the claimant's delivery lorry. That point constituted carriage of goods by air for the purposes of Warsaw Convention, Art.18. "Airside" and "landside" divisions within East Midlands Airport were...

Summary Section 129 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 was not limited to a comparison between licences granted by the same person. The fact that narrowcasters were exempt from the site licence fee which commercial dubbers had to pay was a relevant factor for the Copyright Tribunal to consider when deciding on...

Summary A person who went into negotiations as the agent of another could not subsequently claim to have been negotiating, and to have contracted, as principal on his own account. Facts Action by the claimant ('GL') for a declaration that the defendant ('AL') held the issued shares of Tradition of...

Summary Solicitors who negligently failed to pursue a request for sight of a copy of a building regulation approval were liable for the loss sustained by the claimants on their subsequent acquisition of a defective property. Facts Action for damages by the claimants against their former solicitors ('ABJ') for alleged...