Re Downer Enterprises Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Year1974
Date1974
CourtChancery Division
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  • Anthony John Wright and Geoffrey Paul Rowley as joint liquidators of SHB Realisations Ltd (formerly BHS Ltd) ((in Liquidation)) v The Prudential Assurance Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 6 March 2018
    ...Granite, above, at p 467 per James LJ, In re ABC Coupler and Engineering Co Ltd (No 3) [1970] 1 WLR 702 at p 709 per Plowman J, In re Downer Enterprises Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1460 at p 1469 per Sir John Pennycuick V-C and In re HH Realisations Ltd (1975) 31 P&CR 249 at p 253 per Templeman J. Her......
  • Kumar v Dunning
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 April 1987
    ...of the reversion to H & B; 2. That the plaintiff, having paid the rent, is entitled to be subrogated to the rights of H & B: Re Downer Enterprises Ltd. [1974] 1 WLR 1469; 3. Accordingly, the plaintiff is entitled to succeed if, but only if, H & B as assignee of the immediate reversion were ......
  • Re Toshoku Finance UK Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 February 2002
    ...to disclaim the lease, even though it remained in occupation for nearly two months longer. (See also In re Downer Enterprises Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1460). 29 The principle evolved from the Exhall Coal Mining Co Ltd 4 De G J & S 377, and Lundy Granite Co LR 6 CApp 462 cases is thus one which per......
  • Jervis v Pillar Denton Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 February 2014
    ...when he says that the concession represented the understanding of the profession at the time. 45 Lord Hoffmann also referred to Re Downer Enterprises Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 1460 as another illustration of the principle. The company was the assignee of a lease. The rent appears to have been payabl......
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