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Landlord and tenant [2014] ScotSC 5

SHETLAND LEASING AND PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LTD v. MALCOLM ALEXANDER YOUNGER

SHETLAND LEASING AND PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LTD v. MALCOLM ALEXANDER YOUNGER [2014] ScotSC 5 (14 January 2014)

Sheriff Mann held that the section 4 notice was valid, the tenant’s defences were irrelevant, and the landlord was entitled to declarator that the lease had ended and to summary ejection.

  • Irritancy of lease
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Summary ejection
  • Rent arrears
  • Validity of notices
  • Commercial-lease
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Landlord and tenant [2011] ScotSC 192

STEPHEN JOHN SCOTT & SUSAN JANE SCOTT v. MR GRAHAM MUIR & MRS MAUREEN McLEOD BAIN

STEPHEN JOHN SCOTT & SUSAN JANE SCOTT v. MR GRAHAM MUIR & MRS MAUREEN McLEOD BAIN [2011] ScotSC 192 (07 December 2011)

The Sheriff Principal held that a pre-irritancy warning notice was invalid because it did not specify the payment period or adequately identify the sums due.

  • Irritancy of lease
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Interpretation of statutes
  • Remedies for breach of lease
  • Procedural competency
  • Lease-irritancy
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Landlord and tenant [2008] ScotCS CSOH_12

Tawne Overseas Holdings Ltd v The Firm of Newmiln Farms & Ors

Tawne Overseas Holdings Ltd v The Firm of Newmiln Farms & Ors [2008] ScotCS CSOH_12 (25 January 2008)

The court held that the landlord failed on statutory notice requirements, penalty clause arguments, and waiver, and the defenders were assoilzied in all four actions.

  • Irritancy of leases
  • Penalty clauses
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Waiver and personal bar
  • Lease-irritancy
  • Penalty-clauses
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Landlord and tenant [2001] ScotCS 172

Perth City Wall Ltd v Smart Events Ltd

Perth City Wall Ltd v Smart Events Ltd [2001] ScotCS 172 (29 June 2001)

The court held that a notice of irritancy failed to satisfy mandatory statutory timing requirements, so the lease was not validly terminated and the action was dismissed.

  • Lease irritancy
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Termination of lease
  • Lease-irritancy
  • Notice-requirements
  • Scottish-landlord-tenant-law
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Construction law [2000] ScotCS 133

Strathmore Building Services Ltd v Greig

Strathmore Building Services Ltd v Greig [2000] ScotCS 133 (25 May 2000)

The Court of Session refused a motion to sist a construction payment claim for arbitration, holding that no real dispute arose because withholding-notice requirements were not met.

  • Construction contracts
  • Arbitration clauses
  • Payment disputes
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Construction-contracts
  • Arbitration-clauses
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Property law [1999] ScotCS 135

Brady v National Coal Board

Brady v National Coal Board [1999] ScotCS 135 (4 June 1999)

The Court of Session allowed an appeal in a coal subsidence compensation case, ordering proof before answer and holding the notice defect was not fatal.

  • Coal-mining (subsidence) act 1957
  • Subsidence damage
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Compensation for property damage
  • Limitation periods
  • Statutory interpretation
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Landlord and tenant [1918] ScotLR 261

Viscountess Cowdray v. Ferries

Viscountess Cowdray v. Ferries [1918] ScotLR 261 (05 February 1918)

The Court of Session held that a tenant’s claim for compensation for unreasonable disturbance was out of time because notice was not given within two months of the landlord’s final refusal to renew.

  • Compensation for unreasonable disturbance
  • Notice to quit
  • Renewal of tenancy
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Tacit relocation
  • Agricultural-holdings
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Administrative law [1916] ScotLR 298

Moss' Empires, Ltd v. Walker and Others

Moss' Empires, Ltd v. Walker and Others [1916] ScotLR 298 (18 January 1916)

The Court of Session held that a challenge to a valuation roll entry was competent where the assessor allegedly failed to send the statutory notice of increase.

  • Valuation roll
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Judicial review of administrative action
  • Finality of valuation roll
  • Interpretation of statutes
  • Valuation-roll
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Bankruptcy [1909] ScotLR 356

Robertson v. Petitioner

Robertson v. Petitioner [1909] ScotLR 356 (30 January 1909)

The Court of Session granted a bankruptcy petition under its nobile officium after notices were omitted from the Gazettes because of clerical error, with no prejudice shown.

  • Sequestration
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Nobile officium
  • Bankruptcy
  • Statutory-notice-requirements
  • Nobile-officium
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Local government law [1901] ScotLR 38_593

Cran v. Watt

Cran v. Watt [1901] ScotLR 38_593 (17 May 1901)

The Court of Session held that notice published on Friday in one week and Wednesday in the next satisfied a statute requiring notice “for two successive weeks.”

  • Municipal assessments
  • Statutory notice requirements
  • Construction of statutes
  • Statutory-interpretation
  • Statutory-notice-requirements
  • Municipal-assessments
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