Commercial competition in the funeral business spilled over into the planning field as rival companies, which each hoped to develop crematoria in an area where there was only a market for one, fought out their differences at the High Court. Despite numerous objections from local
Occupational pensions used to be considered gold-plated – but not anymore, it seems, after a retired employee’s campaign to increase levels of compensation paid by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) fell on fallow ground at the High Court. Having achieved a senior position within a
If you are sick and tired of hearing salesmen on the phone, your complaints will not fall on deaf ears, as a plastic windows company discovered to its cost after it was fined £50,000 for subjecting hundreds of people to unsolicited sales calls. The company
A company (company A) which specialises in ecologically friendly investments has won an asset freezing injunction against those it accuses of perpetrating a £2.2 million fraud relating to a 35 hectare plot of Brazilian teak forest. Company A claimed to have been duped into making
Under the new Shared Parental Leave arrangements, eligible parents of children due to be born or adopted on or after 5 April 2015 have more flexibility as to how they take time off work to care for their child. Mothers can share up to 50
A family company which for over 50 years has led the field in the manufacture of ice cream vans has won the right to substantial compensation after convincing the High Court that a rival business blatantly copied the design of its best-selling vehicle. Company A
A company which flouted a council enforcement notice, requiring it to demolish an ‘ugly and imposing’ extension to a delicatessen after it was built without planning permission, has paid a heavy price for its ‘obdurate disobedience’. The company had been granted permission for a single-storey
A company which engaged in disastrous currency swaps with an investment bank is facing up to a bill for more than $4 million after the High Court ruled that it could not escape liability by reason of the bank’s delay in calculating the sum due.
In a clear indication that housing developers are not having it all their own way, preservation of open countryside prevailed as the High Court scotched plans for a residential development in rural Nottinghamshire – despite the acknowledged inadequacy of the area’s supply of housing land.
Two devoutly Roman Catholic midwives who refused to take even supervisory roles in the termination of pregnancies have failed to convince the Supreme Court that their NHS employer trampled on their right to conscientiously object. The women pointed to the terms of the Abortion Act
