A businessman who sought Income Tax relief after gifting shares to two charities may have scored a moral victory – but is still facing a substantial back-tax demand after a tribunal ruled that the shares were worth only about a third of the value he
A senior bank employee, whose boss told him ‘you’re not 25 anymore’ when trying to persuade him to move on from his role, has failed to convince the Emploment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that his constructive dismissal was triggered by age discrimination. The man, aged in
In a unique case which weighed the private interests of commercial tenants against the public safety duties owed by local authorities, Hastings Borough Council was left facing a substantial compensation bill over its 2006 decision to close down the town’s historic pier due to the
Beauty salon customers who paid £4,000 for an anti-wrinkle treatment – which was hailed as a vegetarian-friendly collagen alternative but which contained traces of the blood serum of unborn calves – have scored a crucial victory in their compensation fight. Twenty women had sued clinicians over misrepresentations in
Following the launch of Early Conciliation (EC) on 6 April 2014, around 1,000 people a week have contacted the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) with a view to using EC to settle a workplace dispute and 98 per cent of those have decided to
The old expression ‘If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, then it is a duck’ is well-enough known for unscrupulous companies to imitate the packaging of better-known products to give their own merchandise the ‘look and feel’
In a case which confronted head-on the burning issue of bribery in international contract negotiations, a company which was awarded over £12 million by arbitrators has successfully defended itself against accusations that it obtained the underlying contract through the payment of sweeteners. A technology company
In a stern warning to neighbours that it pays to get along with each other, landowners engaged in a bitter legal battle over rights of way effectively achieved nothing despite spending four costly days fighting it out in the High Court. In a case which
The Court of Appeal has dramatically revived plans to turn Lord Beaverbrook’s former country home –considered a ‘jewel in the crown’ of the Surrey countryside – into an ‘elite’ golf course, hotel, health club and spa. The Court overturned a High Court ruling which had stripped
In a case which shows that a tax inspector’s life can often be more exciting than one might expect, the owners of a table dancing club have found to their cost that, in the great pole dance of life, nothing is certain but death and
