Horridge (t/a Newford Parts Centre) v Downshire House (Reproductions) Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 777 Continuing a brace of nuisance cases, we have this appeal from a split trial on liability on a nuisance claim. The properties involved are both commercial premises,...
Landlord liability for nuisance
The extent to which a landlord can be liable for the acts of his tenants is a vexed topic, which we've discussed on a number of occasions before. The cases rather lean against liability. It is, therefore, very interesting to find Mackay J allowing a claim in...
Well, You Needn’t*
Poplar Housing and Regeneration Community Housing Association Limited (Poplar Harca) v Stephen Howe [2010] EWHC 1745 (QB) When we reported on Lana Wilson v London Borough of Harrow [2010] EWHC 1574 (QB) two weeks ago, we noted that another application for...
Illegal eviction and the police
Naughton v Whittle and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. Manchester County Court 30/11/2009 (Legal Action July 2010) The tendency of the police to be utterly useless in cases of unlawful eviction has been a recurrent motif on Nearly Legal. They...
Delays, Public Law Defences and Suspended Orders
London Borough of Brent v Corcoran & Anor [2010] EWCA Civ 774 While we wait for the Supreme Court decision in Pinnock, which was heard last week, it seems that the Court of Appeal is determined to set practical limits on the operation of the public law...
Damages or Restitution
Shi v Jiangsu Native Produce Import & Export Corp [2009] EWCA Civ 1582 (06 October 2009) While perusing our new copy of Legal Action here at Nearly Legal Towers we came across the above case which we had not previously spotted so it is presented here with...
A charge for credit isn’t credit
Southern Pacific Securities 05-2 Plc v Walker & Anor [2010] UKSC 32 A brief note on this case, which concerned the enforceability of a credit agreement secured on the Walker's property. Our report on the Court of Appeal decision is here, and there is...
Break Clauses North of the Border
The Scottish Court of Session (Inner House) has been considering how to apply Mannai in relation to mis-identification of the landlord in a break notice.
Reviews of Suitability and Discharge of Duty
Ravichandran & Anor v London Borough of Lewisham [2010] EWCA Civ 755 Or Omar v Birmingham City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 610 revisted. This was the Court of Appeal hearing of a second appeal from a s.204 Housing Act 1996 appeal at the County Court on...
Undue influence alive and well
Annulment Funding Company Ltd v Cowey and Cowlam [2010] EWCA Civ 711. We here at NL often joke that, if any of us were appointed to judicial office then we doubt that anyone would ever get possession orders from us; not only are we able to demonstrate a...
You know it when you see it
What is a house? Rather like the well-known elephant test, this point consistently comes before the higher courts - and many other great thinkers - and, in Day v Hosebay Ltd; Howard De Walden Estates Ltd v Lexgorge Ltd [2010] EWCA Civ 748, the Court of...
You can never find an Austrian when you need one
National Westminster Bank Plc v Rushmer [2010] EWHC 554 (Ch) is a rather complex case involving enforcement of charging orders. I'm not going to deal with the full background, which is set out in the judgment and in this earlier case, I just wanted to raise,...