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Archive for November 2008 « FreeLegalWeb
The powers of the appellate court 28 Nov 2008 By J@nearlylegal
Housing Law Admiral Taverns (Cygnet) Ltd v Daniel and another [2008] EWHC 1688 (QB), and [2008] EWCA Civ 1501.
We seem to have missed this important case when it was at High Court level. Sorry about that. An appeal against the High Court judgment has just been dismissed by the Court of Appeal and is now available online [...]
McLaughlin v Duffill, CA, 26/11/2008 26 Nov 2008 By CaseCheck
Property Law The Appeal by a home seller against an order for specific performance of a contract for the sale of a property granted in favour of the respondent purchaser was dismissed. The sale had proceeded by the home seller’s agent acting under oral authority. Until the equitable title in the property was transferred to the buyer from the seller, the contract for sale was nothing more than a contract to which normal rules of agency would apply.
Accepting “part” of a cheque without waiving forfeiture 25 Nov 2008 By Francis Davey
Housing Law Osibanjo v Seahive Investments Limited [2008] EWCA Civ 1282	(Court of Appeal)
Are there circumstances in which a landlord can accept only part of a cheque offered by a tenant and thereby avoid waiving its right to forfeit? It would appear that there are, according to the Court of Appeal in this case which raises interesting questions [...]
Sava v SS Global Ltd & Ors, CA, 25/11/2008 25 Nov 2008 By CaseCheck
Property Law There was no principle of law in adverse possession claims that only acts of possession by the paper owner carried out during a limited period after the claimed ouster that would or might serve to defeat the claim that there had been such an ouster. Such a proposition was contrary to principle.
Not enough of a house 23 Nov 2008 By Nearly Legal
Housing Law This is another of the occasional cases on s.2(1) Leasehold Reform Act 1967 – the definition of a ‘house’ for the purposes of leasehold enfranchisement. Not strictly on point for Nearly Legal, but I enjoy them, so you get them…
Grosvenor Estates Ltd v Prospect Estates Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1281 is a Court of Appeal [...]
Grosvenor Estates Ltd v Prospect Estates Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1281 (21 November 2008) 21 Nov 2008 By CaseCheck
Housing Law The Appellant landlord appealed a decision that the Respondent tenant had the right as a tenant under a long lease to acquire the freehold of its building, because the building was at the date of service of notice of the claim a house “reasonably so called” within the Leasehold Reform Act 1967. The judge had applied the proposition that circumstances would have to be such that nobody could reasonably call the building a house for a judge to hold that it was not a house. The appeal was allowed as the judge had applied the proposition without taking full account of all the relevant circumstances and had paid insufficient attention to the exceptional circumstance of prescribed and predominant office use which was the decisive feature of the case, not its design and appearance.
Enforcing Postponed Possession Orders 14 Nov 2008 By J@nearlylegal
Housing Law LB Wandsworth v Whibley [2008] EWCA Civ 1259.
If a postponed possession order is made and the landlord takes the view that the conditions of postponement have been broken, the application for a date for possession should be conducted on a summary basis and only on the basis of evidence submitted by the landlord… or so [...]
Pour encourager les autres 14 Nov 2008 By J@nearlylegal
Housing Law Webb v Wandsworth LBC (Court of Appeal, November 12, 2008, extempore judgment and only noted in Arden Chambers Eflash 328)
Ms Webb was the secure tenant of LB Wandsworth. Between 2005 and 2006 her son was involved in a number of serious criminal and anti-social acts in the local area. In response, Wandsworth issued possession proceedings [...]
Harassment by possession claim 13 Nov 2008 By Nearly Legal
Housing Law In what appears to be a good week for somewhat bizarre cases, may I present Carlos Allen v London Borough of Southwark [2008] EWCA Civ 1478. This was an appeal by Mr Allen to the Court of Appeal of the striking out of his claim for harassment against LB Southwark.
Mr Allen was a Southwark tenant. Since [...]
Access to benefits and proportionality 13 Nov 2008 By Chief
Housing Law While Zalewska v Department for Social Development (Northern Ireland) [2008] UKHL 67 is not a housing case as such, I hope that many of our readers will still find this useful and interesting. It is the second time in a fortnight (after RJM) that the House of Lords has had to consider whether UK legislation preventing someone [...]