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.