After the goldrush
Ditchburn, Mathew
After the goldrush - 2012 - Hogan Lovells Real Estate Quarterly Summer Issue, 10-11(2) .
Considers whether the status of the decision in "Goldacre (Offices) Ltd v Nortel Networks UK Ltd (in administration)" ([2009] EWHC 3389 (Ch) (L154706)) about rent payable in administration, heralded as a victory for landlords, can remain untarnished when it has led to further disputes, most importantly "Leisure (Norwich) II Ltd and ors v Luminar lava Ignite Ltd (in administration)" ([2012 EWHC 951 (Ch) (L156895)). "Goldacre" has created unfairness on all sides but remains good law, judicially endorsed in "Luminar" as "plainly right".
GOLDACRE (OFFICES) LTD v NORTEL NETWORKS UK LTD (IN ADMINISTRATION)
LEISURE (NORWICH) II LTD V LUMINAR LAVA IGNITE LTD (IN ADMINISTRATION)
RE ATLANTIC COMPUTER SYSTEMS
RE TOSHOKU FINANCE PLC (IN LIQUIDATION)
EXETER CITY COUNCIL V BAIRSTOW
England and Wales--1543-
After the goldrush - 2012 - Hogan Lovells Real Estate Quarterly Summer Issue, 10-11(2) .
Considers whether the status of the decision in "Goldacre (Offices) Ltd v Nortel Networks UK Ltd (in administration)" ([2009] EWHC 3389 (Ch) (L154706)) about rent payable in administration, heralded as a victory for landlords, can remain untarnished when it has led to further disputes, most importantly "Leisure (Norwich) II Ltd and ors v Luminar lava Ignite Ltd (in administration)" ([2012 EWHC 951 (Ch) (L156895)). "Goldacre" has created unfairness on all sides but remains good law, judicially endorsed in "Luminar" as "plainly right".
GOLDACRE (OFFICES) LTD v NORTEL NETWORKS UK LTD (IN ADMINISTRATION)
LEISURE (NORWICH) II LTD V LUMINAR LAVA IGNITE LTD (IN ADMINISTRATION)
RE ATLANTIC COMPUTER SYSTEMS
RE TOSHOKU FINANCE PLC (IN LIQUIDATION)
EXETER CITY COUNCIL V BAIRSTOW
England and Wales--1543-