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Christchurch Pavilion Partnership No 1 and Others v Deloitte and Touche Tohmatsu Trustee Company Limited: PC 4 Feb 2002

(New Zealand) A scheme was created for the construction of a major residential complex. The disappointed investors now claimed damages from the professional supervising ‘statutory’ trustees, after their money was lost. The minimum subscriptions had not been received, but the transaction proceeded. Held: Despite the failings, the claimants had failed to show that the damages … Continue reading Christchurch Pavilion Partnership No 1 and Others v Deloitte and Touche Tohmatsu Trustee Company Limited: PC 4 Feb 2002

Hemingway Realty Ltd v Clothworkers’ Company: ChD 8 Mar 2005

The lease provided for a rent review under which the rent might either be increased or decreased. The landlord had chosen not to exercise the clause in view of falling rents. The tenant purported to do so. The landlord said that it alone had the right to start the procedure. Held: There was no presumption … Continue reading Hemingway Realty Ltd v Clothworkers’ Company: ChD 8 Mar 2005

RFC 2012 Plc (Formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland: SC 5 Jul 2017

The Court was asked whether an employee’s remuneration is taxable as his or her emoluments or earnings when it is paid to a third party in circumstances in which the employee had no prior entitlement to receive it himself or herself. Held: The company’s appeal failed. The purposive approach to the interpretation of the general … Continue reading RFC 2012 Plc (Formerly The Rangers Football Club Plc) v Advocate General for Scotland: SC 5 Jul 2017

Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council: SC 14 Mar 2018

Burchell case remains good law The appellant head teacher had been dismissed for failing to disclose the fact that her partner had been convicted of a sex offence. She now appealed from rejection of her claim for unfair dismissal. Held: The appeal was dismissed. The tribunal was entitled to conclude that it was a reasonable … Continue reading Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council: SC 14 Mar 2018

Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding and others: ChD 27 Jul 2005

The parties had engaged in a bitter 95 day trial in which allegations of forgery, theft, false accounting, blackmail and arson. A company owning patents and other rights had become insolvent, and the real concern was the destination and ownership of . .