A bitterly disappointed media planning company which failed to win a major central government contract is challenging the outcome of the tendering process – on the basis that the price quoted by the successful bidder could not possibly have been realistic. A government department had
An Internet trading company, which was placed in provisional liquidation after being accused of involvement in tax fraud on an enormous scale, has failed to convince the High Court that it was engaged in nothing more than honest business. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) claimed
A farmer’s widow whose land was compulsorily purchased to make way for a bypass is in line for a substantial compensation payout after a tribunal ruled that the site had valuable planning potential as a landfill or land reclamation site. The woman’s husband had owned
In a warning to entrepreneurs that there can sometimes be unpleasant comebacks following the sale of a business, the ex-boss of a car insurance company is facing a £2 million-plus High Court claim following discovery of an alleged mis-selling can of worms. The businessman had
A British businessman has succeeded in overturning a £1.6 million asset freezing order after the High Court expressed ‘serious doubts’ that he could in any way be held responsible for a multi-million-pound international fraud. A New York investor had, through his corporate vehicles, lent large
In a case which helped to define the limits of the Commercial Court’s power to rule upon international disputes, a company has comprehensively failed in its attempt to have its multi-million-euro breach of contract claim heard by an English judge. The English company claimed to
A senior university lecturer whose health and career suffered after she was accused of helping a colleague to create a false and misleading job reference has had her hopes of a substantial compensation payout dashed by the Court of Appeal. The academic had eventually been
In a case which could open the floodgates to a rush of trade mark applications, high street opticians Specsavers have succeeded in convincing the Court of Appeal that the overlapping ovals which they use on their advertising and shop fronts are entitled to legal protection –
In a salutary warning to buy-to-let landlords that they are exposed to the full ferocity of the marketplace, a depressed investor paid a heavy price for his persistent failure to keep up with his mortgage when a lender appointed receivers over his property within days
In an unprecedented case of significance to any hard-pressed business, a tribunal has ruled that the recession was an event that went beyond the normal hazards of trade and amounted to a ‘reasonable excuse’ for a company’s late payment of VAT. The small family electronics
