Metropolitan Property Holdings Ltd v Finegold

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1975
CourtDivisional Court
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  • R v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and Another, ex parte. Spath Holme Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 January 2000
    ...Properties v Devlin (1970) 21 P and CR 689, 691; Tormes Ltd v Landau [1971] 1 QB 261 at 267; Metropolitan Properties v Finegold [1975] 1 WLR 349, 352). In default of agreement between the parties, the fair rent is assessed by the rent officers, and, on appeal by rent assessment committees......
  • Richard Walter Morrison-low V. The Executors Of Thomas Herbert Paterson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 9 February 2012
    ...overall. There is a distinction between a premium for scarcity and a premium for special amenity (Metropolitan Holdings Ltd v Finegold [1975] 1 WLR 349.) There could in theory be a perfectly balanced market with equal numbers overall of lessors and bidders. In such a market, there could be ......
  • Curtis v London Rent Assessment Committee
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 9 October 1997
    ...scarcity, the Chairwoman referred to the test of Lord Widgery CJ, with which Mais and Croom-Johnson JJ had agreed, in Metropolitan Property Holdings Ltd. v. Finegold & Ors [1975] 1 WLR 349, DC, at 353–4, that it must be taken over a broad area, not just the immediate locality. She and her f......
  • Western Heritable Investment Company Limited V. Olivia Hunter
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 23 March 2004
    ...the Spath Holme case ... and as Lord Widgery C.J. analysed it as long ago as 1975 in Metropolitan Property Holdings Ltd. v. Finegold [1975] 1 W.L.R. 349, 351-353 (see also B.T.E. Limited v. Merseyside and Cheshire Rent Assessment Committee (1991) 24 H.L.R. 514, 516-517, per Hutchison J. and......
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