In an illustration of the legal tangle that building disputes can so easily become, the owner of a flat, who was fully entitled to sack a contractor who let him down, has nevertheless failed to win more than £27,000 in compensation for his financial losses.
A fire at well-known nightclub The Sugar Hut – where television show ‘The Only Way is Essex’ (TOWIE) was subsequently filmed – led to a rash of High Court litigation and a million-pound-plus damages award against insurance brokers. The nightclub, in Brentwood, was described by
In a startling case which exposed bitter strife at managerial level within an NHS trust, a senior employee who was sworn at and threatened by a colleague has nevertheless failed to convince a judge that she was bullied and harassed into a mental breakdown. The
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
