Ramsay V Love Approved Judgment
Neutral Citation Number: [2015] EWHC 65 (Ch) Case No: HC-2013-000082 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CHANCERY DIVISION Royal Courts of Justice Rolls Building, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL Date: 20/01/2015 Before : MR JUSTICE MORGAN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Between : GORDON JAMES RAMSAY Claimant - and - GARY LOVE Defendant - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jonathan Seitler QC and Benjamin Faulkner (instructed by Mishcon de Reya) for the Claimant Romie Tager QC and Alexander Goold (instructed by Jeffrey Green Russell) for the Defendant Hearing dates: 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28 November and 1, 2 December 2014 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Approved Judgment I direct that pursuant to CPR PD 39A para 6.1 no official shorthand note shall be taken of this Judgment and that copies of this version as handed down may be treated as authentic. ............................. MR JUSTICE MORGAN MR JUSTICE MORGAN Ramsay v Love Approved Judgment Mr Justice Morgan: Introduction 1. On 18 February 2008, Northam Worldwide Ltd (“Northam”), the then freehold owner of premises at 127 and 129 Parkway London, NW1 (“the premises”), granted a lease of those premises to Gordon Ramsay Holdings International Ltd (“GRHI”). The terms of the lease provided for the obligations of the lessee to be guaranteed by Gordon Ramsay Holdings Ltd (“GRH”) and by Mr Gordon Ramsay. On completion, Northam as the lessor was provided with the counterpart lease which appeared to have been duly executed as follows. The counterpart appeared to have been duly executed by GRHI (as lessee), by being signed as a deed by Mr Ramsay as a director of that company with Mr Ramsay’s signature being witnessed by Mr Christopher Hutcheson, another director of that company.
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