In a case which tested the limits of the High Court’s power to act as an ‘international policeman’, the Court has declined to make an asset freezing order in respect of a $60 million commercial dispute which had no sufficient connection to England and
In a decision which gives important guidance on the scope of remedies available for losses suffered due to breaches of competition law, the Court of Appeal has ruled out a conspiracy claim by one of the corporate victims of a sophisticated price-fixing cartel involving
A pizza chain faces having to close its branch in London’s trendy Notting Hill after the High Court backed a planning inspector’s decision that it detracts from the vitality and viability of an area which is home to many small retailers and a street
Demonstrators who camped out on the verge of a busy West Sussex road for three months in protest against a nearby ‘fracking’ operation have been ordered to leave by the High Court on the basis that human rights considerations could not justify their indefinite
On 9th October 2013 the Cohabitation Bill was due for its first reading in the House of Lords. The Bill is described as ‘a Bill to make provision for certain protections for people who live together as a couple or who have lived together as
In upholding an award of more than £280,000 to a brickwork sub-contractor engaged in a major residential development, the High Court has emphasised that it will only very rarely interfere with adjudicators’ decisions – even if it takes the view that they are wrong
A Court of Appeal ruling has shed much-needed light on the confusing reaches of the law relating to allotments but has also dealt a devastating blow to plot holders who bitterly objected to their beloved vegetable patches being sold off to make way for
The High Court has tested the boundaries of European Union competition laws in the context of a heated trade dispute which sprang from a critical shortage of a market-leading antiretroviral drug used for treating HIV patients. The drug’s manufacturer had supplied the product
A veteran fund manager who brought down the wrath of his former employer when he resigned and moved to a competitor has been issued with an injunction holding him to a ‘garden leave’ covenant in his contract. The High Court found that the term
In a salutary reminder of how very tough it can be to obtain exemptions from tax, the Professional Golfers’ Association Limited (PGA) has failed to convince a tax tribunal that its members should be permitted to deduct their annual membership fees from their Income
