Widely differing views around the globe on the acceptability of testing the safety of cosmetics on animals have triggered a test case of enormous significance to both the industry and animal rights campaigners who condemn the practice as cruel. Cosmetics which include animal-tested ingredients are
Maritime trading in the horn of Africa can be a tricky business, as a ship charterer found out to its cost when its attempt to deliver a cargo to Djibouti was for months frustrated. Following a Court of Appeal ruling, the charterer is now also
A former couple, who for over a decade successfully defrauded the benefits system by pretending that they were separated – and ended up battling it out in court over ownership of their family home after their relationship really did end in acrimony – have received
In an important test of local democracy in the planning context, the High Court has struggled through Byzantine legislation and opened the way for a neighbourhood referendum in which residents of a county town will be given the chance to have their say in shaping
In a guideline decision, the High Court has ordered enforcement of an adjudicator’s award on the basis that a kilometre-long conveyor system had a sufficient degree of permanency to render its installation a ‘construction operation’ within the meaning of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration
In a clear indication that the visual and other impacts of the ever-increasing number of wind farms have become a matter of Central Government concern, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government overruled one of his own planning inspectors in scotching plans for
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that obesity can constitute a ‘disability’ within the meaning of EU Directive 2000/78/EC, which establishes a general framework for equal treatment in employment. The ruling came in response to a question referred to the ECJ by the
In a move described by the TUC as a ‘blatant attempt to water down’ last month’s decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Bear Scotland v Fulton that holiday pay should reflect non-guaranteed overtime that is routinely worked, the Government has laid before Parliament regulations amending
At what point does an agent’s introduction of an eventual buyer become an ‘effective cause’ of the sale? The Court of Appeal will consider that vital issue as brokers battle for a 10 per cent commission on the €19.8 million sale of a super yacht.
A novel attempt to deploy human rights legislation to extend the territorial reach of UK employment tribunals, so that they could deal with whistleblowing cases from around the globe, has fallen on fallow ground but may be a sign of things to come. An Italian
