Summary The degree, if any, to which the value in money or money's worth of the benefit of a life assurance policy as at the date of its assignment to the defendant was affected by the knowledge that the insured was shortly to undergo hazardous surgery was a matter for...

Summary The Solicitors Accounts Rules overrode any contractual duty of confidence that might subsist between solicitor and client. Facts Application by the claimant for a declaration as to whether or not he had breached r.27 Solicitors Account Rules 1991 ('the Rules') by refusing to comply with the defendant's requirement to produce...

Summary Where all the shareholders of a company had unanimously agreed, at a meeting, to the transfer of company property to certain of those shareholders and directors, the fact that the meeting was termed a "board meeting" and that there was no shareholders' resolution giving prior approval to the transfer,...

Summary Determination of preliminary issues arising out of the collapse of an investment scheme. Facts Application by the claimant custodian trustee company ('T') for the determination of three preliminary issues in a proceedings which arose out of the collapse of an investment scheme organised by the first defendant ('P'). In 1999...

Summary In making an order for specific performance on an application for summary judgment, the judge had erred in finding that there was no evidence of impossibility to perform. Facts Appeal by the first defendant ('MPG') from Pumfrey J's order of 15 March 2002 on a CPR Part 24 application by the claimant ...

Summary A guarantor was refused permission to appeal from a summary judgment granted four years earlier on a claim on the guarantee because he had no real prospect of success. Facts Application by the defendant ('C') for permission to appeal and for an extension of time for appealing from the...

Summary The so-called "Prudential principle" did not preclude an action brought by a claimant not as a shareholder but as a beneficiary under a trust against his trustee for an account of profits received in relation to shares which were the subject of the trust, unless it could be shown...

Summary A tenant was required to put up a realistic figure as the premium he proposed to pay for a new lease under s.4(3)(c) Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. Facts Application for a declaration that a s.42 notice served under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development...

Summary The hearing was an appeal from a decision of Master Moncaster, giving summary judgment in favour of the Claimants. The key issue on the appeal was which of successive bare possessors of land was entitled to possession as against the other. The Claimants (who had been there first) relied...