In a case which raised novel issues of potentially wide importance to homeowners and property developers, a man who decided that total demolition and re-building of his home would be a cheaper option than refurbishment must face up to a swingeing capital gains tax
In an important decision which gives guidance on the scope of English jurisdiction clauses in international trade contracts, the domestic courts have declined to hear a dispute in which an airline claimed that it had suffered huge losses due to the existence of an
In a ruling with potentially wide implications, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has drawn a crucial distinction between ‘withdrawal’ and ‘dismissal’ of a claim. The importance of the point lay in the fact that the latter would have precluded pursuit of a claim based
Where a commercial contract specifically stated that it included all the terms that had been agreed between the parties, arguments that further provisions had been added by implication or in the course of informal oral communications could not succeed, the High Court has ruled.
In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the First-Tier Tribunal has ruled that a local authority was entitled to use its power under the Localism Act 2011 to impose a moratorium on the sale of a historic east end
A hard-working couple are facing retrospective tax demands totalling almost £600,000 after failing to persuade the First-tier Tribunal that they abandoned their UK residence when they departed to the continent in search of an easier life. The middle-aged couple had, from lowly beginnings,
In a warning to employers of how difficult it can be to manage an employee’s return to work following a prolonged period of sick leave, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has directed a re-hearing of a Jobcentre worker’s complaints that he was discriminated against
In a case which some might view as a testimony to the wisdom of compromise, the bitterly opposed parties to a contract for the provision and maintenance of specialist software for mobile phones resorted to costly High Court litigation to resolve their differences.
In a case which threw up novel issues on the inter-relationship between insolvency rules and the law relating to transfer of undertakings (TUPE), the Court of Appeal has dashed the hopes of four workers who lost their jobs as the well-known football club they
An ‘extremely tragic’ £50 million divorce case in which a family is ‘tearing itself apart’ has evoked ‘nothing but despair’ from a High Court judge, who lamented the missed opportunities to compromise and the parties’ expenditure of £700,000 on litigation that was still at
