Wrotham Park Estate Company Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1974
Year1974
CourtChancery Division

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218 cases
  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council v W. & J. Wass Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 29 July 1988
    ...no loss. 15To these exceptions to the general rules in tort must be added the decision of Brightman J. in Wrotham Park Estate Co. Ltd. v. Parkside Homes Ltd. [1974] 1 WLR, 798. In that case the first defendants had erected houses and constructed roads in breach of a restrictive covenant whi......
  • Winter and Another v Traditional & Contemporary Contracts Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 7 November 2007
    ...share approach is well recognised in civil proceedings for breach of restrictive covenants. A classic example is Wrotham Park Estate Co v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798. In that case a developer had built a number of houses in breach of a covenant. Brightman J refused to grant a mandat......
  • Low Yat Holdings Sdn Bhd and Another; Templeton and Others
    • Malaysia
    • High Court (Malaysia)
    • 1 January 1993
  • Jodie Aysha Henderson v All Around the World Recordings Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Intellectual Property Enterprise Court
    • 3 October 2014
    ...The Court of Appeal in ( Force India [2013] EWCA Civ 780; [2013] RPC 36) did not dissent from Arnold J's summary of the law (at [97]). 19 Wrotham Park damages, though they are for breach of contract, are in all relevant respects the same as those I have to consider under this head, so the......
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  • Rights To Light: Are Injunctions A Thing Of The Past?
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq UK
    • 13 May 2015
    ...1 Peter Scott and Frances Scott v Peter Aimiuwu and Catherine Aimiuwu [2015] 2 Wrotham Park Estate Co Limited v Parkside Homes Limited [1974] 1 WLR 798 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your spe......
  • Will The Trek To An Injunction Be A More Difficult Walk In The (Wrotham) Park Now?
    • Singapore
    • Mondaq Singapore
    • 12 September 2018
    ...of discretion. This double whammy was precisely what happened in the English case of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798. This case concerned a covenant not to develop land except in accordance with certain conditions. The plaintiffs conceded that the value of t......
  • Will the trek to an injunction be a more difficult walk in the (Wrotham) Park now?
    • Singapore
    • JD Supra Singapore
    • 10 September 2018
    ...of discretion. This double whammy was precisely what happened in the English case of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798. This case concerned a covenant not to develop land except in accordance with certain conditions. The plaintiffs conceded that the value of t......
38 books & journal articles
  • RE-EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUTUAL PROMISES IN CONTRACT LAW.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 45 No. 2, April 2022
    • 1 April 2022
    ...'A Relational Law of Contract?' (2004) 20(2) Journal of Contract Law 125, 140, citing Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd[1974] 1 WLR 798 and AG v Blake [2001] 1 AC 268. It should be noted that in One Step (Support) Ltd v Morris-Garner [2019] AC 649, 697-8 [114]-[115], Lord Sump......
  • ENLARGED PANELS IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SINGAPORE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...2 SLR 129. 45 [2015] 5 SLR 1. 46 [2018] 2 SLR 655. 47 So named after the decisions of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798 and Attorney General v Blake [2001] 1 AC 268. 48 [2018] 1 SLR 363. 49 [2015] 5 SLR 1104. 50 [2018] 1 SLR 659. 51 The occurrence of three-jud......
  • CONTRACT LAW IN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES: UNIFORMITY OR DIVERGENCE?
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2019, December - January 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...on the much discussed decision by Brightman J in the English High Court decision of Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd [1974] 1 WLR 798 (‘Wrotham Park’) (see also Robert J Sharpe and S M Waddams, “Damages for lost opportunity to bargain” (1982) 2 OJLS 290); reference may also b......
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    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Remedies: The Law of Damages. Third Edition Limiting Principles
    • 21 June 2014
    ...2 WLR 405 ............................................31, 32, 76, 427, 465, 469, 470 Wrotham Park Estate Co Ltd v Parkside Homes Ltd, [1974] 1 WLR 798, [1974] 2 All ER 321, 118 Sol Jo 420 (Ch) ...................................................... 120, 286, 288, 289, 312 WWF – World Wide Fu......
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