First Tower Trustees Ltd and Another v CDS (Superstores International) Ltd: CA 19 Jun 2018

Grant of lease, but property badly contaminated with asbestos.
The Court recognised a principle of ‘contractual estoppel’ – whereby parties can bind themselves by contract to accept a particular state of affairs even if they know that state of affairs to be untrue

Citations:

[2018] EWCA Civ 1396, [2019] 1 P and CR 6, [2019] 1 WLR 637, [2018] WLR(D) 376, 178 Con LR 35

Links:

Bailii, WLRD, WLRD

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedUber Bv and Others v Aslam and Others SC 19-Feb-2021
Smartphone App Contractors did so as Workers
The court was asked whether the employment tribunal was entitled to find that drivers whose work was arranged through Uber’s smartphone application work for Uber under workers’ contracts and so qualify for the national minimum wage, paid annual . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Landlord and Tenant, Torts – Other

Updated: 11 August 2022; Ref: scu.618376