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Both Peter B and I gave Foskett QC some help; he got to first base, but query whether he would have got further!

Gareth

In Mon, 19 May 1997, Lionel Smith wrote:

In Brennan v. Brighton BC, The Times 15 May (CA), the plaintiff worked on a sports centre leased to a corporation. The defendant owned the land but was contractually bound to the corporation to grant to it a 31 year lease of the centre. When the work was substantially completed, the defendant refused to grant the lease to the corporation. It was in liquidation and its liquidator did not pursue a claim.

The plaintiff sued in deceit. After the limitation period had expired the plaintiff sought to add a claim in unjust enrichment. The CA affirmed the decision that the claim was statute barred but doubted the judge's decision that in any event the claim in unjust enrichment disclosed no reasonable cause of action. It was not obvious that the corporation's separate personality barred
such a claim.

Lionel Smith