The public interest in contract adjudicators’ awards being treated as final means that judges will generally enforce them, whether they are right or wrong. The High Court made that point in a case where a building company was ordered to pay more than £400,000 to
The freeholds of a great many blocks of flats are held by tenant-owned companies which operate on democratic principles. Such arrangements are, however, not a panacea and disagreements can arise. A guideline Supreme Court decision will, however, make it easier for tenants to know where
Compensation awards in the most serious clinical negligence cases commonly run into millions, even tens of millions, of pounds. However, as the case of a teenager who was born to a life of acute disability due to a negligent delay in his delivery showed, they
Update: Valid Section 21 Notice and Gas Safety Certificate. Where do you stand? Sheila Valand | Partner The Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the case of Trecarrell House Limited v Rouncefield (B5/2019/0499). The Court of Appeal ruled that late service of
Few would quarrel with the long-standing rule of law that anyone who unlawfully kills another is barred from benefiting, financially or otherwise, from his or her crime. In a unique decision, however, the High Court waived that rule in the case of an elderly wife
Part-time referees who officiate at professional football matches on a game-by-game basis are not employees. Confirming their self-employed status in a guideline case, the Upper Tribunal (UT) noted that they are so motivated to work that there is no need to place them under a
Businesses that handle personal data but fail to take appropriate steps to guard against cyber attacks expose themselves to grave financial and reputational damage. That was certainly so in the case of an international airline whose flawed systems compromised the security of millions of its
Adjudication has since 1996 helped to preserve project cashflows by providing a cost-effective and swift means of resolving building contract disputes – but its interaction with the insolvency regime, in particular the principle of insolvency set-off, has long been a subject of debate. An important
The human right to peaceful enjoyment of private property must sometimes give way to the national need for major infrastructure projects. The High Court made that point in rejecting a concerned householder’s bid to force a rethink of the design of part of the HS2
Psychiatric damage suffered by road accident victims can be just as serious, if not more so, than their physical injuries. In one case, a nurse who was traumatised for months following her involvement in a pile-up was awarded more than £40,000 in compensation. She was
