A mental health nurse who was accused of inappropriately touching colleagues and behaving in an unacceptably sexualised manner has been given a fresh chance to prove that her dismissal was unfair. The nurse strongly denied the accusations but was dismissed for gross misconduct by the
In a ruling of interest to tenants of tied properties, an RAF squadron leader’s ex-wife, who was ordered out of her government-owned home after her husband left her, has failed to convince judges that her eviction would violate her human rights. After 15 years of
Members of the public who are pestered by aggressive and unsolicited marketing will be interested to hear that the Government has wide powers to protect consumers against those responsible for the irritating flood of cold calls and junk mail. A company provided an ostensible service
Two companies, each of which claims the other should bear the heavy burden of a cost over-run during construction of a waste-to-energy plant, had to resort to the High Court to make sense of their respective contractual obligations. Company A had employed company B to
Undercover police officers whose jobs often entail making contact with informers at all hours of the day and night have had their right to fair overtime payments for the out-of-hours work they put in recognised by the Court of Appeal. Officers engaged in ‘handling’ informers
In a case which revealed a wrinkle in the law which is bound to cause consternation amongst well-heeled residents of London’s historic garden squares, the High Court has ruled that an extension which was built in strict accordance with planning permission was nevertheless unlawful and
In a deeply worrying case for the tax authorities, a company which ran a successful bonded warehouse has won the right to substantial compensation from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) after it was accused of fraud without justification, hit with a tax demand for almost
In a case which will send shock waves through the mergers and acquisitions market, an airline which repeatedly mounted hostile takeover bids against a rival carrier came up against the barrier of European anti-trust rules and has been ordered to divest itself of most of
Plans for a state-of-the-art energy-from-waste plant and recycling facility – which are considered to be of ‘national significance’ – have received the green light after the Court of Appeal rejected a challenge to the scheme. The plant was projected to have capacity to handle 585,000
The trans-European market in branded goods came under the spotlight as the Court of Appeal placed the emphasis on free trade and opened the way for a parallel importer of pharmaceuticals to buy up stocks of a leading drug in Germany and France before re-labelling
