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Do you have the right defendant?

  • McInnes Wilson Lawyers
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  • Australia
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  • May 6 2013

At approximately 5.15pm on Monday 4 October 2004, a public holiday, the plaintiff went to the Woden Plaza in the ACT to buy some items at Woolworths

The uneven lawn an obvious risk

  • McInnes Wilson Lawyers
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  • Australia
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  • April 1 2011

The Plaintiff leased a unit in block of 16 residential units from the Defendant

Tenancy by the entirety protection now available to revocable trusts of spouses

  • Arnstein & Lehr
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  • USA
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  • January 11 2011

Effective January 1, the Illinois Joint Tenancy Act has been amended to permit revocable inter vivos trusts created by a husband and wife to hold title to the couple's homestead property as tenants by the entirety

From the man on the Clapham omnibus to the woman on the Croydon tram

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 2 2012

All good law students will be familiar with the “man on the Clapham omnibus” although his colloquial origins (and indeed why he is based in Clapham) are unclear

Dealing with a mineral interest not administered as part of predeceased owner’s estate

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 1 2013

You are interested in acquiring a gas lease on certain parcel. When you look at the real property records, however, you discover the record owner is

Lloyds TSB Bank Plc v Markandan & Uddin meaning of “completion”

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 2 2012

Where the defendant firm of solicitors had caused, through no fraud of their own, mortgage monies paid to it to be paid out to fraudsters in breach of the terms of their instructions and authority, it had acted in breach of trust

Gillian Drysdale v Joanne Hedges

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 22 2012

The Claimant, then aged 40, suffered a fall when she was ascending a flight of steps on 5 October 2008 leading to the front door of a property she had rented from the Defendant

Singapore Court of Appeal interprets best endeavours clause and construes remedies under Singapore Law Society's Conditions of Sale 1999

  • Allen & Gledhill LLP
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  • Singapore
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  • August 30 2012

The case of Chan Ah Beng v Liang and Sons Holding (S) Pte Ltd and another application is instructive for the Singapore Court of Appeal's assessment of whether the appellant had used his best endeavours to obtain the approval of the relevant regulatory authority for the sale and purchase of his property

Harvey v Plymouth City Council 29.7.10

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 15 2010

Occupier not liable for serious injuries following fall over a tripping hazard at night; there was no implied consent to the Claimant's activities at the time

Getting to the root of tree nuisance: Guinan v. Ottawa (City)

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 29 2011

This decision of Justice J. MacKinnon of the Ontario Superior Court, dated February 26, 2010, confirms that the common law nuisance principles that apply to private landowners, also apply to municipalities