In an unprecedented case, a simple spelling error by Companies House – in which a single letter ‘s’ was mistakenly left out of an official document – caused the collapse of a 124-year-old family engineering business, the High Court has ruled. Cardiff-based business, Taylor &
In the context of compensation claims brought by members of the armed forces who are injured at work, the High Court has emphasised that services personnel are not employed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), nor do they work under contracts of service. Three servicemen
In the context of compensation claims brought by members of the armed forces who are injured at work, the High Court has emphasised that services personnel are not employed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), nor do they work under contracts of service. Three servicemen
In a warning to businesses that the security of the public postal service can never be completely guaranteed, and that sending cheques in the post is not risk free, a sorting office worker managed to steal post worth £2.3 million in the largest theft ever
The owners of a $55 million oil tanker, who claim that she was attacked in the Gulf of Aden by a band of pirates who set off a bomb in her engine room, leaving her dead in the water, have convinced a High Court judge
Three Court of Appeal judges have expressed dismay after two wealthy couples blew £500,000 on a ‘toxic’ dispute over little more than a few feet of muddy ditch. Neither couple achieved an outright victory in the ‘Dickensian’ neighbours’ dispute which the Court described as an
Residential tenants of listed former newspaper offices, engaged in an epic struggle with their landlords over the heavy cost of maintaining the historic building, have been urged to seek a reasonable compromise by the Upper Tribunal (UT). Two floors of the baroque-style landmark had been
A man who accused auction house Sotheby’s of negligently selling a painting which could have been by Italian baroque master Caravaggio for just £42,000 has had his hopes of multi-million-pound compensation dashed by the High Court. The painting of three card players closely resembled a
A celebrated legal stalemate – involving the governments of India and Pakistan, the heirs of the last ruling Nizam of Hyderabad and £35 million held in a British bank – may finally draw to a conclusion after more than 65 years of heated dispute. The
Perennial issues in respect of the tax treatment of business entertaining expenses came to the fore as a leading accountancy firm sought a VAT refund, going back more than 25 years, on the costs of feeding and watering its clients. From the inception of VAT
