Results: 8

• Frontiers Capital I Ltd Partnership (acting by Frontiers Capital General Partner Ltd) v Flohr

  06 Nov 2023 [2023] EWHC 2723 (Ch), Ch D (Master Brightwell)

  11 Nov 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 1385; [2025] Ch 139; [2025] 2 WLR 967; [2025] 2 All ER (Comm) 128; [2024] WLR(D) 503, CA (Asplin, Elisabeth Laing, William Davis LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 2.
  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Effect
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  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Effect — Limited partnership dissolved and apparently wound up — General partner bringing claim on behalf of partnership in reliance on causes of action accruing before dissolution — Whether general partner having authority to bring claim — Whether “necessary” to do so — Partnership Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 39), s 38

  4 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Khan v D’Aubigny

  17 Jan 2025 [2025] EWCA Civ 11; [2025] Ch 168; [2025] 2 WLR 991; [2025] WLR(D) 28, CA (Newey, Nugee LJJ, Cobb J)

  STATUTE — Construction — Service of documents by post

  STATUTE — Construction — Service of document by post

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assured shorthold tenancy — Notice of proceedings for possession
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  STATUTE — Construction — Service of documents by post — Statutory provision deeming service by post to be effected where statute authorising or requiring service by post — Whether deeming provision applying to statute permitting but not expressly authorising or requiring service “by post” — Interpretation Act 1978 (c 30), s 7

  STATUTE — Construction — Service of document by post — Statutory provision deeming service of document to be effected by posting where statute authorising or requiring service “by post” — Whether deeming provision applying if statute not expressly referring to service “by post” — Interpretation Act 1978 (c 30), s 7

  LANDLORD AND TENANT — Assured shorthold tenancy — Notice of proceedings for possession — Tenancy agreement deeming service of “notice” to be effected by posting — Whether letter enclosing required documents “notice”

  6 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Messalti v Malik

  06 Feb 2023 [2023] EWHC 553 (KB), KBD

  25 Oct 2024 [2024] EWHC 2713 (Ch); [2025] Ch 123; [2025] 2 WLR 953; [2025] 2 BCLC 169; [2024] WLR(D) 480, Ch D (Richards J)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  INSOLVENCY — Transaction at undervalue — Transfers of property defrauding creditor

  INSOLVENCY — Transaction at undervalue — Purpose of transaction
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  INSOLVENCY — Transaction at undervalue — Transfers of property defrauding creditor — Appellant transferring beneficial interest in property to children — Appellant later subject to adverse costs order and charging order made over property — Disposition of beneficial interest set aside as transaction at undervalue made for prohibited purpose — Whether court to be satisfied that transferor had knowledge of specific creditor at time of transfer — Whether court entitled to set aside disposition — Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), s 423(3)

  INSOLVENCY — Transaction at undervalue — Purpose of transaction — Creditor applying to set aside transaction entered into by debtor — Whether requirement that debtor having knowledge of actual or potential creditors at time of transaction — Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), s 423(3)

  INSOLVENCY — Transaction at undervalue — Purpose of transaction — Creditor applying to set aside transaction entered into by debtor — Whether necessary that debtor having knowledge of actual or potential creditors at time of transaction — Insolvency Act 1986 (c 45), s 423(3)

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Morris v Williams & Co Solicitors

  18 Apr 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 376; [2025] Ch 34; [2024] 3 WLR 693; [2025] 2 All ER 343; [2024] WLR(D) 174, CA (Sir Geoffrey Vos MR, Lewison, Falk LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 6.
  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Claim form
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  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Claim form — Single claim form issued on behalf of 130 claimants — Whether multiple claims to be disposed of in same proceedings — Proper test to be applied — CPR rr 7.3, 19.1

  PRACTICE — Pleadings — Claim form — Single claim form issued by 134 claimants — Whether multiple claimants to be permitted to use single claim form to bring claims — Whether all claims capable of being conveniently disposed of in same proceedings — CPR rr 7.3, 19.1

  1 Case considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Procter v Procter

  25 May 2022 [2022] EWHC 1202 (Ch), Ch D (Judge Davis-White QC sitting as a High Court judge)

  09 Apr 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 324; [2025] Ch 1; [2024] 3 WLR 631; [2024] 2 All ER (Comm) 786; [2024] WLR(D) 158, CA (Peter Jackson, Nugee, Falk LJJ)

  22 Jul 2024 Permission to appeal to Supreme Court refused, , SC(E)

  Subsequent citations: 1.
  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Distribution of assets

  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Partnership property
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  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Distribution of assets

  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Partnership property — Family partnership carrying on farming and property business — Claimant resigning from partnership and bringing claim for share of partnership assets — Whether claimant entitled to partnership assets — Basis of valuation of claimant’s share — Partnership Act 1890 (c 39), s 31(2)

  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Partnership property — Partner resigning from partnership — No express agreement in partnership deed or subsequently about financial implications of partner’s resignation — Whether partner’s resignation giving rise to “technical dissolution” — Whether resigning partner entitled to share of partnership assets — Partnership Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict c 39), ss 17, 31(2), 36, 43

  3 Case(s) considered

  1 Statute considered

• Clapham v Narga

  22 Dec 2023 [2023] EWHC 3337 (Ch); [2024] Ch 165; [2024] 3 WLR 1; [2024] WLR(D) 6, Ch D (Leech J)

  11 Nov 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 1388; [2025] Ch 77; [2025] 2 WLR 413; [2025] 3 All ER 583; [2024] WLR(D) 482, CA (Peter Jackson, Newey, Nugee LJJ)

  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession
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  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession — Squatters acquiring title to unregistered land by adverse possession — Land subsequently registered — Squatters failing to become registered as freehold proprietors of land within statutory transitional period — Whether losing entitlement to be registered as proprietors of land — Land Registration Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 21), s 75 — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), ss 15, 17 — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), s 29, Sch 3, para 2(c), Sch 12, para 18

  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession — Squatters acquiring title to unregistered land by adverse possession — Land subsequently registered — Squatters failing to become registered as freehold proprietors of land within statutory transitional period — Whether losing entitlement to be registered as proprietors of land — Land Registration Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 21), s 75 — Land Registration Rules 1925 (SI 1925/1093), r 278 — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), ss 15, 17 — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), ss 29, 60, Sch 3, para 2(c), Sch 12, para 18

  LAND REGISTRATION — Registration — Adverse possession — Dispute between neighbours as to ownership of strip of land — Claimants claiming to have acquired ownership of strip by adverse possession before land’s first registration — Whether dispute to be determined by reference to general boundaries rule — Land Registration Act 1925 (15 & 16 Geo 5, c 21), s 75 — Limitation Act 1980 (c 58), ss 15, 17 — Land Registration Act 2002 (c 9), s 60 — Land Registration Rules 1925 (SI 1925/1093), r 278

  2 Case(s) considered

  4 Statutes considered

  1 Statutory Instrument considered

• Cynberg v Nilsson

  23 Aug 2024 [2024] EWHC 2164 (Ch); [2025] Ch 103; [2024] 3 WLR 969; [2024] WLR(D) 393, Ch D (James Pickering KC sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  TRUST OF LAND — Family home — Joint interest
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  TRUST OF LAND — Family home — Joint interest — Husband and wife living in property purchased in joint names — Parties separating and reaching understanding that property belonged to wife — Whether subsequent informal common intention constructive trust capable of overriding express declaration of trust

  TRUST OF LAND — Family home — Joint interest — Husband and wife living in property purchased in joint names — Parties expressly declaring in Land Registry form that property held on trust for themselves as joint tenants — Whether express declaration capable of being overridden by subsequent common intention constructive trust

  6 Case(s) considered

• Bahia v Sidhu

  30 Nov 2023 [2023] EWHC 3028 (Ch), Ch D (Nicholas Thompsell sitting as a deputy High Court judge)

  03 Jun 2024 [2024] EWCA Civ 605; [2025] Ch 55; [2024] 3 WLR 709; [2024] 4 All ER 887; [2025] 1 All ER (Comm) 124; [2025] 1 BCLC 14; [2024] WLR(D) 277, CA (Arnold, Andrews, Nugee LJJ)

  Subsequent citations: 3.
  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Assets
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  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Assets

  PARTNERSHIP — Dissolution — Assets — Court ordering winding up of partnership — Sole surviving partner seeking transfer to him of partnership property — Whether circumstances sufficiently exceptional to justify departure from normal order of sale on open market

  5 Case(s) considered