Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd: Difference between revisions

{{cn}}{{cite|Central London Property Trust Ltd|High Trees House Ltd|1947|KB|13}} is [[Lord Denning]]’s famous [[High Trees]] case — though at the time he was not [[Lord Denning]], but mere [[Denning J]] of the [[King’s Bench Division]] of the High Court — reinvigorating the old doctrine of Promissory Estoppel first articulated in way back in the day by Lord Lance Cairns<ref>Not really Lance Cairns. Just Lord Cairns. No relation, though by some spooky irony he did play with a shoulderless bat and knocked towering sixes out of the park.</ref> {{casenote|Hughes|Metropolitan Railway}}.

Enter people’s hero [[Denning J]], who quite correctly, was having ''none'' of this. Note that the actual action was a test case only seeking rent for periods in 19145, so technically the rent from 1940 wasn’t at issue, so these first instance observations of the future [[Master of the Rolls]], albeit then only a High Court judge, in short pants and so on — made ''[[obiter dicta]]'' — not binding statements of the [[common law]]. But they were influential all the same — [[Lord Denning]] found them persuasive later in his career when he ''was'' [[Master of the Rolls]]! — and int the short term they persuaded CLPT not to waste its time and money pursuing the back rent.