Verrall v Great Yarmouth BC

Verrall v Great Yarmouth BC
Wellington Pier, Yarmouth
Court	Court of Appeal
Citation(s)	[1981] QB 202
Keywords
Licence, specific performance

Verrall v Great Yarmouth BC [1981] QB 202 is an English land law case, concerning licences in land.

Facts

Great Yarmouth Borough Council promised to rent out the Wellington Pier Pavilion in April 1979 to the National Front for its two-day national conference in October. Then Labour won the council in May and attempted to revoke the NF’s licence. Mr Verrall sued on his own behalf and for the NF members for performance of the contract.

Judgment

Lord Denning MR held that the contract had to be upheld, and was specifically enforceable. Since the case of Winter Garden Theatre Ltd v Millennium Ltd^[1] he said, ‘it is clear that once a man has entered under his contract of licence, he cannot be turned out. An injunction can be obtained against the licensor to prevent his being turned out.’^[2]

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Supposing one of the great political parties - say, the Conservative Party - had booked its hall at Brighton for its conference in September of this year: it had made all its arrangements accordingly: it had all its delegates coming: it had booked its hotels, and so on. Would it be open to the local council to repudiate that agreement, and say that the Conservative Party could not got there? Would the only remedy be damages? Clearly not… It would be the same in the case of the Labour Party, or whoever it may be. When arrangements are made for a licence of this kind of such importance and magnitude affecting many people, the licensors cannot be allowed to repudiate it and simply pay damages.

”

Sources on licences

Thomas v Sorrell (1673) EWHC (KB) J85

Protection from Eviction Act 1977 s 5

Winter Garden Theatre Ltd v Millennium Ltd [1948] AC 173

National Provincial Bank v Ainsworth [1965] UKHL 1

Tanner v Tanner [1975] EWCA Civ 4

Children Act 1989 s 15 and Sch 1

Verrall v Great Yarmouth BC [1981] QB 202

Thompson v Park [1944] KB 408

Hurst v Picture Theatres Ltd [1915] 1 KB 1

Hounslow LBC v Twickenham GD Ltd [1971] 1 Ch 233

Land Registration Act 2002 s 116

Family Law Act 1996 ss 30-31

Manchester Airport plc v Dutton [1999] EWCA Civ 844

Binions v Evans [1972] EWCA Civ 6

Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1988] EWCA Civ 14

Errington v Errington & Woods [1951] EWCA Civ 2

Inwards v Baker [1965] EWCA Civ 4

De Mattos v Gibson (1858) 4 De G&J 276

see English land law, licenses and leases

Sources on leases

LRA 2002 s 116 and Sch 3, para 1

Protection from Eviction Act 1977 s 5

Family Law Act 1996 ss 30-33

LPA 1925 ss 1 and 205(1)(xvii)

Errington v Errington [1951] EWCA Civ 2

Ashburn Anstalt v Arnold [1988] EWCA Civ 14

Street v Mountford [1985] UKHL 4

Mikeover v Brady [1989] EWCA Civ 1

Aslan v Murphy and Duke v Wynne [1989] EWCA Civ 2

AG Securities v Vaughan [1988] UKHL 8

Prudential Ltd v London Residuary Body [1991] UKHL 10

Bruton v London & Quadrant Housing Trust [1999] UKHL 26

ECHR art 8 and Prot 1, art 1

Kay v Lambeth LBC [2006] UKHL 10

see English land law, licenses and leases

Notes

↑ [1948] AC 173
↑ [1981] QB 202, 216

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