Third party debt orders can be a powerful means of enforcing judgments, but how do they affect funds held in solicitors’ client accounts? The High Court considered that issue in a guideline case concerning an alleged financial fraud. Two companies and an individual had launched
Uniforms and other articles of clothing worn by self-employed people wholly and exclusively for the purposes of their work are tax deductible. In an important decision, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) ruled that the skimpy dresses, high heels and suggestive lingerie worn by an exotic nightclub dancer
An absence of assets to satisfy a judgment debt is not, by itself, a good reason for refusing to grant judgment in the first place. The High Court made that point in coming to the aid of the trustee of an insolvent employer’s pension scheme.
Staff who are shifted between one employer and another have a right to work under the same terms and conditions as before – but what happens if such provisions become obsolete? A tribunal tackled that issue in a guideline case. The case concerned a group
The widespread belief that an Englishman’s home is his castle can all too easily lead the unwary into breaching planning rules. That was certainly so in a case concerning a householder who found herself in serious trouble after splitting her home into two self-contained residential
Healthy competition is one thing, but using a rival’s confidential information to gain an unfair edge in the marketplace is quite another. That distinction was at the heart of a bitter commercial dispute between competitors in the party balloon business. A group of companies that
The Buildmark scheme, whereby the quality of new homes is underwritten by the National House Building Council (NHBC), provides peace of mind to thousands of householders. However, as a High Court case showed, making claims under the scheme can be a complex matter and it
Under the law as it stands, employers are not required to give paid leave to grieving parents. Section 57A(1) of the Employment Rights Act 1996 gives employees the right to take a reasonable amount of time off to take action which is necessary for dependants
Those who set out to deceive family judges in divorce proceedings rarely succeed and usually end up being hit hard in the pocket for their pains. A successful buy-to-let property entrepreneur found that out to his cost when his ex-wife was awarded the lion’s share
Judges frequently have to tread the tricky dividing line between interpreting contracts and illegitimately re-writing them so as to conform to subjective views as to what does and does not makes business common sense. However, in an instructive case concerning a dispute between a local
