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
A property development company which was plunged into financial crisis by a catalogue of local authority maladministration will receive just £50,000 in compensation despite the Local Authority Ombudsman’s recommendation that it should be paid five times that sum. The company had purchased land in the
An international trading relationship that ‘got off to a bad start’ continued in the same vein with disputes over money, the arrest of a vessel at an Iranian port and, after much contractual wrangling, a High Court ruling which did not fully satisfy either party.
A Boots pharmacist whose career was destroyed when he was accused of stealing hundreds of perfume testers from the store he managed has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that he was unfairly dismissed. The man had only just returned from a lengthy
In tackling the often thorny problem of distinguishing between tenancies at will and protected periodic tenancies, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a tenant who stayed on after the expiry of his lease was not obliged to give six months’ notice before ceasing to
A highly successful entrepreneur who incurred a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liability in excess of £760,000 on the sale of shares in his company has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that an accountancy firm gave him negligent advice. The Iranian-born businessman had established
