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
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
