A hot air ballooning company will enjoy a substantial cash-flow advantage after it convinced the First-tier Tribunal that VAT is chargeable on its gift vouchers not when they are paid for but when they are redeemed, often several months later. The company specialises in laying
London councils who were refused exemptions from a fundamental shift in planning policy – designed to tackle the acute housing shortage by allowing the wholesale conversion of offices into homes without planning consent – have failed to convince the High Court that they were treated
When an adjudication decision is made in a contractual dispute, does the ‘clock’ start again for bringing an action? That was the question before the Court of Appeal recently. In the case in point, the ‘loser’ in a construction contract dispute which was decided by
In a signpost decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has rejected novel arguments that agency workers who complete a 12-week qualification period become automatically entitled to the same rights as directly employed personnel who work alongside them. A group of cleaners had, for many years,
An animal lover’s legal campaign to secure a return home for what remains of a prize flock of sheep bequeathed to him by a 93-year-old friend has been brought to a sad end by the Court of Appeal. The man had been given the flock
In a vivid warning to the business community that embittered ex-staff members can sometimes return with a vengeance, a disgruntled computer expert who used his technical skills to take retribution on his former employers after he was made redundant has failed to persuade the Court
Tenants of England’s most valuable out-of-town retail park have achieved a 10 per cent reduction in their business rates after convincing a tribunal that their trade was significantly hit by the £350 million extension of a town centre shopping centre. The Fosse Park retail park
When two innocent collectors each paid £1 million or more to a ‘rogue’ classic car dealer for the same McLaren Formula 1 racing car, only one of them could obtain good title to the vehicle and the other had to lose his money, the High
Nearly all businesses operate websites that usually include a blog page, twitter feed or reference to a third party site. Contained within this information may be a reference to a third parties article either via a link or a snippet of the article has been
Oxford University has come down hard on an institution that dubbed itself ‘Oxford Law School’ and used familiar navy blue and dreaming spires imagery to sign up students on its website. The university’s admissions department had been put on alert after fielding calls from students
