CPI Update - Issue 09 - January 2004

Cases reported in the January 2004 issue of the CPI Update:

• Tennaro Ltd v Majorarch Ltd - Triggers for completion in a contract for sale;
• Blockbuster Entertainment Ltd v Barnsdale Properties - Landlord and tenant; reasonableness of refusal of licence to sub-let;
• Smith v Royce Properties Ltd - Option to purchase; valuation; current use value;
• Tiffany Inv. Ltd v Bircham & Co Nominees (No. 2) Ltd - Registration of pre-emption rights; Pritchard v Briggs revisited;
• Mason v Totalfinaelf UK Ltd - Landlord and tenant; assessing dilapidation claims;
• Burford UK Properties Ltd v Forte Hotels (UK) Ltd - Landlord and tenant; lease interpretation;
• Transco v Stockport MBC - Nuisance; applying the rule in Rylands v Fletcher;
• Marcic v Thames Water Utilities Ltd - Nuisance and the Water Industry Act 1991;
• Arundel Corporation v Khokher - Landlord and tenant; service of notices by recorded delivery.