In a case which underlined the limitations of Chinese walls and ethical screens, a top international law firm has been ordered to cease advising a client in a $2 billion commercial dispute despite pointing to a battery of precautions that it had taken to ensure
Three disgruntled members of staff at the House of Commons, who had their remuneration frozen for more than two and a half years due to Government cuts, have failed to convince the High Court that they have a contractual entitlement to regular, automatic, pay rises.
With almost £500,000 at stake, five lap dancing clubs have failed to convince a tax tribunal that they are not liable for VAT on the commission that they charge dancers on the redemption of vouchers which enable punters to carry on spending after they run
Pirates who hijacked a freighter off the coast of Africa, stealing its valuable cargo of premium motor oil, could not have imagined that their actions would lead to a novel commercial dispute between charterers and ship owners in a London court. Fifteen armed men attacked
Published Monday 3rd February 2014, 07:00 AM The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) have been amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014, which came into force on 31 January 2014. In the light
The Government has announced that, owing to delays to the Children and Families Bill, it will not be possible to extend the right to request flexible working arrangements to all employees who have completed 26 weeks’ qualifying service as from 6 April 2014 as originally
In a case which threw up novel issues relating to wills and foreign donations to UK political parties, the British National Party (BNP) found itself in legal hot water after failing to convince the High Court that it was entitled to inherit £389,000 left to
A company that for over 30 years ran a lucrative coach service from Luton Airport to central London – but which lost its concession to a competitor following a tendering exercise – is mounting a multi-million-pound compensation bid, claiming that the airport’s operators abused their
In a case which gives guidance on the duties of commercial landlords to maintain the appearance of demised premises, a self-storage company which complained that its customers were being put off by the presence of an unsightly heap of rubble has failed in a bid
Two civil servants who received lower severance payments than younger colleagues would have been entitled to when leaving their posts on a voluntary basis have achieved a resounding success in their age discrimination claims. The men were employed by the Ministry of Justice and the
