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Patel v Chiltern Railway Co Ltd [2007] PLSCS 156, (County Court, HHJ Peter Cowell)
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 November 2007
Housing Law Monitor
Housing Law Monitor highlights the latest issues surrounding housing law within the public and private sectors. From housing benefit, letting policy, eviction procedure, sheltered accommodation and landlord/tenant obligations, Housing Law Monitor..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Redbus LMDS Ltd v Jeffrey Green Russell [2006] (unreported) Chancery Division, Judge Behrens QC (17 November 2006)
Drafting in a licence agreement was the issue in this case.
The background
The claimant (R) retained the defendants (JGR) to act in relation to a licence agreement relating to intellectual property rights to develop and exploit a machine to detonate..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 November 2007
Football League Ltd v Edge Ellison and others [2006] EWHC 1462 (Ch)
Finally on the subject of professional negligence we draw readers’ attention to this case. The full judgment - all 104 pages – is worth detailed study for those really interested in the subject.
The background
The case was well..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Talisman Property Co Ltd v Norton Rose [2006] EWCA Civ 1104; [2006] 45 EG 192
This case concerned the service of a notice under s25 Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and considers the method of assessing damages for the loss of a chance. The case is welcome because it helps to clarify several concepts in a complex and developing..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Vision Golf Ltd v Weightmans [2006] EWHC 1766 (Ch)
This case concerned the assessment of damages payable to a client where solicitors failed to apply to the court for relief from forfeiture of a lease protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954.
Previously, in 2005, Lewison J had determined issues..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Professional negligence in the commercial leases sector
Inevitably it is a fact of modern professional practice that even in the best of regulated and managed practices things will go wrong from time to time; a key date might be missed or a crucial passage in a document overlooked in circumstances which..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Protected lease - renewal - rental evidence
Samuel Smith (Southern) Ltd v Howard de Walden Estates Ltd [2007] 1 EGLR 107
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Options and time limits
While on the subject of options granted under leases and in connection with property interests it may be helpful to remind readers of some basic principles on the timing and service of notices under the option agreement:
Where the agreement..
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007
Agreement to surrender tenancy - Section 38(1) of the Act
Ultimate Leisure Ltd and another v Tindle and another [2007] EWCA Civ 1241 Court of Appeal (25 October 2007)
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01 November 2007
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Volume 21 Issue 10 - 01 October 2007