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The appearance of a substantial defence in possession claims, and property guardians and possession.

Global 100 Ltd v Laleva (2021) EWCA Civ 1835 There is a hell of a lot packed into one appeal here, so I'll try to be brief. This was Global 100's appeal of a first instance appeal (our note here) in which HHJ Luba QC had held that the first instance District...

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A sorry tale

Webb and another v Marcos and another CA, July 8, 2011 (lawtel and westlaw notes only) looks like a sad tale, as well as being one of those (hopefully rare) cases where a possession order was enforced by committal. M was the occupier of a property which had...

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Cleaning Up

You may recall, almost two years ago now, we reported on the case of Defence Estates v L [2009] EWHC 1049 (Admin), under the title “Something of a mess”. The title was a reference to a comment of Collins J during the course of discussions after his judgment...

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Remedying immoral use

Patel v K&J Restaurants [2010] EWCA Civ 1211 deals with a number of interesting questions concerning relief from forfeiture. Although the lease in question (of a restaurant and residential flats) fell within the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, the case has...

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