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
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
