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
Housing estate neighbours, who fell out bitterly after some of them extended their gardens onto amenity land which had for years been used for communal recreation, have been urged not to let their dispute escalate into a Dickensian saga. The case centred on a small
In an embarrassing case for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), it has been ordered to pay up to £7 million in legal costs following a botched prosecution. The High Court found that the SFO’s handling of the case against two businessmen and their legal advisers
The Court of Appeal has criticised the ‘extraordinarily labyrinthine quality’ of import duty regulations in ‘reluctantly’ concluding that a mastectomy bra is an article of clothing, not an orthopaedic appliance, and is thus subject to 6.5 per cent duty. The bra was designed to hold
The power of judges does not extend to the mending of personal relationships, as a senior doctor discovered when the High Court refused to order his return to work almost four years after he was excluded from the operating theatre. The surgeon had been excluded
In a warning to property investors that the advent of the Localism Act 2011 means that broad issues of community welfare may stand in the way of their plans, a tribunal has stepped in to protect a rural pub from the prospect of development. The
Buy-to-let property investors who were incensed when their ‘tracker’ mortgage rates were increased out of the blue have been told by a High Court judge that, had they read their contracts carefully, they would not have been surprised. An action group made up of more
E-cigarettes are becoming more and more popular and, as is common when an innovation occurs, the law struggles to keep up. In a recent case, the Employment Tribunal (ET) had to consider a claim for constructive dismissal brought by a school canteen worker who contended
