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Development Disputes: Injunctions post-Coventry v Lawrence
Douglas Rhodes considers the wide-ranging implications for property developers of the Supreme Court’s decision in Coventry v Lawrence ‘Led by Lord Neuberger, the Supreme Court unanimously decided that it was “quite simply wrong in principle” to apply the Shelfer test in a mechanical fashion and found that a much more flexible approach was necessary.’ Courts …
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- Colls v Home & Colonial Stores Ltd [1904] UKHL 1
- Coventry v Lawrence [2011] EWHC 360 (QB); [2012] EWCA Civ 26; [2014] UKSC 13
- HKRUK II (CHC) Ltd v Heaney [2010] EWHC 2245 (Ch)
- Jacklin v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2007] EWCA Civ 181
- Regan v Paul Properties [2006] EWHC 1941 (Ch); [2006] EWCA Civ 1391
- Shelfer v City of London Electric Lighting Co [1895] 1 Ch 287
- Watson & ors v Croft Promo-Sport Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 15