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Craftrule Ltd v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2010 in landlord & tenant, law reports by sally

Craftrule Ltd v 41-60 Albert Palace Mansions (Freehold) Ltd [2010] EWHC 1230 (Ch); [2010] WLR (D) 138

“The phrase ‘a self-contained part of a building’ in ss 3 and 4 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 did not, either expressly or by implication, require that a self-contained part of a building should be indivisible into smaller such parts.”

WLR Daily, 27th May 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2010 in consumer protection, defective goods, law reports, limitations, Supreme Court by sally

O’Byrne v Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd [2010] UKSC 23; [2010] WLR (D) 137

“In a claim under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 based on the rights conferred under Council Directive 85/374/EEC concerning liability for defective products, which by art 11 required proceedings to be brought against the producer within ten years of the product being put into circulation, domestic law could not allow the producer to be substituted as the defendant outside that period in place of a wholly-owned subsidiary (who was the supplier but had been erroneously thought to be the producer) unless the parent company had actually determined when the supplier put the product in circulation.”

WLR Daily, 27th May 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Jones v Kernott – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2010 in appeals, cohabitation, domicile, law reports by sally

Jones v Kernott [2010] EWCA Civ 578; [2010] WLR (D) 136

“Where the parties had agreed when they separated that they had equal interests in a residential property conveyed into their joint names there had to be something to displace those interests before the court could impute from the parties’ conduct an intention to vary that equality. The passage of time was insufficient to do so even if in the meantime the defendant had acquired alternative accommodation and the claimant had paid all the outgoings.”

WLR Daily, 27th May 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – WLR Daily

Posted May 28th, 2010 in appeals, contract of employment, damages, disciplinary procedures, law reports by sally

Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2010] EWCA Crim 571; [2010] WLR (D) 135

“An employee who suffered damage as a result of findings of personal or professional misconduct leading to dismissal and loss of professional status that were made against him in disciplinary proceedings conducted in breach of contract, and which would not otherwise have been made, could recover damages at large.”

WLR Daily, 27th May 2010

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

Please note once a case has been reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.

Recent Statutory Instruments – OPSI

Posted May 28th, 2010 in legislation by sally

The Census (Wales) Regulations 2010

The Newlyn Pier and Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2010

Source: www.opsi.gov.uk

Bar rules delay blamed for low LDP take-up – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted May 28th, 2010 in alternative business structures, barristers, law firms, news by sally

“The delay in the relaxation of rules preventing barristers from entering law firm partnerships has been blamed for the low take-up of the first wave of new legal business structures.”