A company that invested more than £60 million in the port of Great Yarmouth over a six-year period, greatly boosting its income, has nevertheless failed in a High Court bid to take over as its official harbour authority. The Great Yarmouth Port Company, which is
A part-time nurse who sought substantial compensation for the loss of almost 20 years’ worth of pension rights has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that her employer failed to take reasonable steps to draw her attention to her entitlement to opt into
In a case which highlighted the need for co-operation between opposing legal teams even in the most hotly contested litigation, the High Court has called for mediation and an end to procedural point scoring in a commercial dispute in which legal costs bills were projected
Wealthy families with valuable art collections on the wall will be celebrating after the Court of Appeal ruled that a Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece which was sold for £9.4 million at Sotheby’s was a piece of ‘plant’, used to attract visitors to one of Britain’s
In a case which threw into stark relief the grave consequences of legal aid cuts in the civil justice system, a leading firm of solicitors has failed to convince the High Court that public funding should be made available for those who appeal against local
The burning debate over how the south east of England’s acute need for more new homes is to be met formed the background to a High Court dispute in which a giant insurance company challenged a local authority’s refusal to allocate its strategic land-holding for
In a guideline decision that will be greeted with dismay by those who campaign for the rights of vulnerable migrant workers, the Court of Appeal has ruled that two Nigerian women who were appallingly mistreated by those who employed them as domestic servants were nevertheless
In a striking example of an arbitration award merely firing the starting gun on years of intractable litigation, the High Court has lamented that, almost a decade after a contractor was awarded more than $99 million, not a penny has yet been paid. The contractor
A leading firm of solicitors has been ordered to pay more than £1.6 million in damages for professional negligence after a busy lawyer misunderstood or misremembered his client’s instructions when drafting a partnership agreement. The law firm had been retained to advise a headhunting business
Following extensive litigation, with more than $1 million at stake, the High Court has found that an apparently complex dispute relating to an abortive oil trading contract is in the end likely to come down to a single missing signature. Two Swiss companies had entered
