Summary The court was entitled to intervene where a valuer of shares had made a mistake in calculating share values. The issue was essentially a matter of contract, and turned on what the parties had agreed to remit to the valuer. Facts This appeal concerned shares in two family companies...

Summary Ombudsman's decision upheld that a Company was estopped from questioning in 1991 the validity of changes in the company's pension scheme which were effected by invalid Board resolutions in 1986. Facts Appeal brought under s.151(4) Pension Schemes Act 19953 by an English subsidiary of a US company challenging a decision of the...

Summary It is not a breach of good estate management practice, nor a derogation from grant, for a landlord to let other properties adjacent to the demised premises for the same or similar purposes or for the same or similar trades. Facts Application by the claimant for damages for breach...

Summary Grounds for rectifying a sale and merger agreement fulfilled and order for rectification to be made. Facts Claim for rectification of Sch.5 to an Agreement dated 5 September 1989 made between the plaintiff, Grand Metropolitan, the 1st defendant and the 2nd defendant whereby the 2nd defendant purchased two subsidiaries of the...

Summary Whether a party injured by a breach of trust is entitled to claim both an account of profits and damages for being kept out of property which has been let in breach of an agreement to assign. Facts Defendants' appeal and plaintiffs's cross-appeal from the Hong Kong Court of...

Summary Modifying restrictive covenants on a housing estate to permit a small block of flats to be substituted for an existing dwelling house. Facts Application by Colin Moram and Minola Smith for orders modifying the restrictions imposed by a building scheme for the development in 1934 of the Upton Grove Estate...