In a resounding warning to those engaged in drafting contracts that it is essential to correctly identify the parties to an agreement, a company found itself embroiled in costly litigation after entering into a £4 million construction contract with an engineering company that turned
In a shocking ruling, an Employment Tribunal (ET) has laid bare a substantial company’s sleazy inner workings and rejected a compensation claim brought by its ‘dishonest’ former managing director, who stooped to blackmail in an attempt to keep his job and spent large sums
After what is believed to be the longest-running race discrimination case ever, an academic who was turned down for a college lectureship 14 years ago has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal that his £25,787 compensation award was nowhere near enough for what
In a case which underlines that the risk of public confusion is very often the deciding factor in trade mark disputes, one of Britain’s only two private universities scored an early success in a trans-Atlantic dispute with an evangelical American university with a similar
In a stern warning that breaches of planning control can lead to jail in extreme cases, a ‘wily operator’ who repeatedly flouted court orders requiring him to clear farmland of inappropriate development has been sent to prison for nine months by the High Court.
A campaign group opposed to plans to turn Lord Beaverbrook’s former country home into a hotel, health club and spa and high-end golf course has triumphed in a legal challenge to the scheme after the High Court ruled that councillors who approved it had
The Government has published its response to the consultation on proposed changes to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE). Significantly, service provision changes will continue to qualify as relevant transfers for the purposes of TUPE. Amendments will be made
In a cautionary tale for solicitors engaged in ‘no win, no fee’ litigation, a law firm that arranged loans for its clients so that they could afford to sue for personal injury has been found liable to repay substantial sums to the finance company
In a ruling with important tax implications for further education institutions, a leading computing college which awards diplomas to students that can count towards their degrees has failed to convince the Upper Tribunal (UT) that it should be viewed as a ‘college of a
In an important ruling for educational charities and investment managers, Cambridge University has persuaded a tax tribunal that it is entitled to a substantial VAT rebate in respect of the fees it paid over a 27-year period to professionals engaged in managing its endowment
