In a cautionary tale for homeowners, next-door neighbours at war over a three-foot strip of land between their properties lavished hundreds of thousands of pounds on legal costs – and got almost nowhere. The owners of two modest properties (house A and house B) each
In discouraging an excessively formalistic approach to the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in the UK, the Court of Appeal has rejected a highly technical bid by two businessmen to shelter from liabilities totalling more than $26 million. Arbitrators in Los Angeles had found the
Three members of a family who flouted planning laws and defied a judge by failing to clear caravans and scrap from their land have been spared jail for their contempt of court – but have been ordered to pay a £20,000 fine and substantial legal
The High Court has deprecated the increasing number of cases in which dissatisfied parties to arbitration proceedings inappropriately seek to utilise Section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to challenge findings of fact made against them. Two overseas companies had fallen out over four inter-connected
In a significant decision for the shipping industry, the High Court has ruled that a vessel owner’s insistence that it had the right to refuse to sail through the Gulf of Aden – where piracy was known to be rampant – did not amount to
In a bitter illustration of the grave financial consequences that can arise from a failure to compromise, neighbouring homeowners who engaged in costly legal warfare over just nine inches of shed space were each left facing substantial legal costs. The dispute centred on two suburban
An attempt by campaigners to stall construction of an incinerator and energy from waste facility has failed after the High Court rejected pleas that a local authority’s blunder had circumvented proper consideration of environmental issues and public participation in the planning process. The campaigners submitted
When a shopper bought a laptop computer on credit from a branch of PC World in 1998, he could not have imagined that the simple transaction would trigger a test case which, 15 years later, culminated in a Supreme Court ruling which significantly boosted consumer
A hospital consultant facing a number of allegations, including failing to respond to out-of-hours emergency calls and attempting to speed the progress of one of her private patients to the top of an NHS waiting list, has failed in a High Court bid to block
Josiah Hincks Solicitors in Leicestershire have raised over £223,250 in future income as part of Free Wills Month in October 2013. Free Wills Month brings together a group of well respected charities to offer members of the public aged 55 and over the opportunity to
