Summary A settlement agreement between the first defendant and a third party had not had the effect of extinguishing the third party's claim against the present claimants, with the consequence that the present claimants could look to the first defendant for a contribution towards the damages that they had been...

Summary There was nothing procedurally unfair about the decision of inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to complete and deliver their report into the appellant's conduct in relation to three companies without allowing him an opportunity to answer in writing the provisional criticisms made of...

Summary Judge entitled to find that a series of transactions by a company, in which a headlease and underlease were executed, were so indivisably bound together that the company never acquired anything more than a nominal reversion which could fall prey to a debenture. Facts Appeal by the first, second...

Summary The provisions of Part XII, Chapter II Companies Act 1985 were applicable in England, Wales and Scotland, the distinct chapters merely providing the process of registration in each jurisdiction. Facts Application by the administrators of the claimant company, incorporated in Scotland, for directions on whether a debenture granted by the...

Summary The provisions of s.97(2) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 were apt to provide for a measure of damages appropriate in cases of deliberate or reckless infringement. Facts The claimant sued the Sun newspaper for copyright infringement of a photograph of a patient at Rampton Hospital ('A'), a convicted killer....

Summary A judge was wrong to conclude that the fourth defendant's transfer of his legal interest in a property to the claimant was also intended to transfer his beneficial interest in that property. Facts Appeal by the fourth defendant ('K') from an order of HH Judge McKenna by which he...

Summary Successful application for summary judgment for specific performance of an agreement for the sale of a shopping centre. On the facts of the present case the vendor was not required to produce a stamped transfer in its favour on completion, from which it followed that the purchaser could not...

Summary An application for an order striking out director disqualification proceedings unless the secretary of state answered requests for information under CPR Part 18 was rightly dismissed because the requests were premature and it was not reasonably necessary or proportionate to require the secretary of state to provide the information sought....

Summary The defendant's evidence that he and the claimant had orally agreed that the latter would not exercise an option in certain circumstances, which circumstances still prevailed, was sufficiently credible to preclude summary judgment being granted in favour of the claimant. Facts Claimant's ('M') application for summary judgment under CPR...