CPI Update - Issue 72 - October 2009

The October 2009 issue of the CPI Update is attached below. It contains:

Case law commentary on:

• Making contracts for sale conditional on planning and dealing with third party challenges - Stoll v Wacks Caller;
• Establishing a repudiatory breach of a housebuilder's new-build contract - North Eastern Properties Limited v Coleman & Quinn;
• Insolvency and the registration of bankruptcy petitions - Trustee in Bankruptcy of Poulton v Ministry of Justice;
• The land registration effects of a sale and leaseback fraud; priority of interests - Redstone Mortgages plc v Welch;
• Landlord and tenant; service of notices by companies - Hilmi and Assoc. Ltd v 20 Pembridge Villas Freehold Limited;
• Easements – what amounts to an actionable interference? What justifies refusal of an injunction? Wall v Collins

Legislative developments in relation to:
The Companies Act 2006:
– registration of charges;
– execution by overseas companies;
– registration of charges by overseas companies;
– Companies Act and LLPs;
– financial collateral arrangements;
Changes to search fees for local land charge personal searches.

Practical comment on:
Guarantees of a landlord, and their release or retention on assignment.
1954 Act – termination for redevelopment where agreements for lease are planned.
Land Registry – new issue of Landnet.
Contracts and deeds – Mercury Tax, once again.

Published 30th September 2009.