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Re Norbrook Heights

Land law - Restrictive covenant - Covenant preventing subdivision - Application for modify - Whether objectors entitled to the benefit of the covenant - Whether words used in the originating documents sufficient to annex the benefit to the land - Whether land affected by the covenant - Whether building scheme created - Unity of seisin - Land law - Restrictive Covenant - Covenant preventing subdivision Application to modify - Whether character of neighbourhood has changed - Whether objectors have acceded to the breach - Restrictive Covenants (Modification and Discharge) Act, section 3.

Archibald, Roger v The Council of Legal Education

Education Student awarded a failing grade - Whether grade unreasonable -

Whether court entitled to, or should intervene to change the grade

Judicial Review - Natural Justice - Student appealing to governing tribunal

contesting a grade awarded to him by law school - Whether tribunal obliged to give

an opportunity to the student to respond to the law school's reply to the appeal

Practice and Procedure - whether document exhibited to an affidavit of the

Claimant may be treated as expert evidence

13 Norbrook Crescent

Land Law - Restrictive Covenant – Covenant preventing subdivision -

Application to modify – Whether objectors entitled to the benefit of the

Covenant – Whether words used in the originating document sufficient to

annex the benefit to the land – Whether land affected by the covenant -

Whether building scheme created – Unity of seisin

Land Law - Restrictive Covenant – Covenant preventing subdivision -

Maragh, Gloria v Maragh, Eric

Maintenance of wife - Application for - Wife preveated from engaging in continuous employment during the marrigage - Whether a consideration for maintenance award - Whether previous receipt of a lump sum from a division of matrimonial property should affect award - Section 5(2) and 14(4) of the Maintenance Act 2005.

Zim Israel Navigation Company Limited v Kingston Terminal Operators Limited and SGS Supervise Jamaica Ltd.

Contract - Exclusionary clause - Whether implied by course of dealing - Whether limitation period incorporated into contract

Negligence - Causation - Good shipped abroad rejected by Food Inspection Agency - Whether rejection caused by method of packaging the shipping container.

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