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The Sea Angel 2007
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The Sea Angel was a vessel used by Tsavliris to assist in the salvage operations concerning the Tasman Spirit......
Veral v Great Yarmouth BC
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Great Yarmouth Council, which was under a Conservative majority granted a licence to the National Front......
Das v Linden Mews Ltd
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Two residents of Linden Mews formed a company called Linden Mews Ltd. The purpose of the company was the purchase......
Wall v Collins 2007
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Doctrine of merger of leasehold and freehold interests, extinguishment of easements...
Shiloh Spinners Ltd v Harding
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The claimants (S) were assignees of two long leases of adjoining mills. S assigned part of the premises to T, who in turn assigned to H....
Small v Oliver & Saunders (Developments) Ltd
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The claimant owned a house next to the defendant who was a housing developer. The developer had two pieces of planning......
Nicholls v Lan
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A married couple, the Nicholls, jointly owned a property. Mr Nicholls subsequently entered bankruptcy......
DGM Commodities Corporation v Sea Metropolitan SA
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In October 2007, the defendants (the owners of a vessel) chartered a vessel to the claimants (the charterers)......
Wilkie v Redsell 2003
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Claim for equitable relief denied by claimant's own unconscionable conduct....
Cowcher v Cowcher
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Mr and Mrs Cowcher were together for almost 20 years, marrying in 1953. In 1963, they had bought a house together......
Gissing v Gissing [1971]
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The parties married in their early twenties and the wife worked throughout the marriage as part of a printing company....
Re Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England's Conveyance
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The Ecclesiastical Commission, who was charged with the responsibility to distribute the incomes for the Church of England......
R (Wheeler) v Office of the PM
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The claimant (W) applied for permission to seek judicial review of the decision of the Office of the Prime Minister......
Chartered Trust plc v Davies
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Whether lease could be repudiated due to nuisance from adjoining premises...
R (on the application of Beresford) v Sunderland CC
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A new town development created a town plan that identified an open space in the town as a playing field/parkland....
Lovett v Fairclough (1991)
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The defendant owned an estate adjoining a river owned by the claimant. His predecessor in title had fished from the river for a long period......
Melluish v BMI (No. 3)
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BMI acquired and then hired out plant and machinery, such as central heating equipment and crematoria equipment, to local authorities. In each case......
Alfred F Beckett Ltd v Lyons
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The case involved a claim made by the plaintiff that as an inhabitant of the County Palatine of Durham......
Union Lighterage Co. v London Graving Dock Co
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A dock and a wharf, divided by a fence, belonged to the same owner in 1860. In the same year, in order to secure the side......
Borman v Griffith [1930]
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Borman leased a garden which included a paddock, orchard and adjoining gardens, on a long term basis....
Leigh v Taylor [1902]
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Madame De Falbe was a life tenant of a stately home, in which she had hung valuable tapestries belonging to her. The canvasses were nailed......
Bannister v Bannister [1948]
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Constructive trust of land; oral agreement to allow vendor to occupy a house rent free....
Bass Holdings Ltd v Morton Music Ltd
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The plaintiffs granted the defendants a fifteen-year lease, with the option to extend the lease for a period...
London & Blenheim Estates Ltd v Ladbroke Retail Parks Ltd
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The Leicestershire Coop owned land in and around one of their stores in Leicestershire to London......
Lloyd v Dugdale [2001]
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The defendant had arranged for his company to do building work on the claimant's land on the understanding that the claimant would grant......
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