In a ruling which gives useful guidance on the meaning of ‘trade’ in the tax context, a tribunal has ruled that a laundry occupied by an NHS trust is a ‘commercial building’ within an enterprise zone and therefore qualifies for 100% income tax relief
Although legal advice may sometimes appear overly pessimistic to clients, that does not mean it is wrong or negligent, as the High Court has emphasised in dismissing a company’s £1.45 million professional negligence claim against a law firm. The company had issued convertible
In a ground-breaking decision, and a stern warning that the greatest care is needed when making money transfers, a company that claimed to have fallen victim to a £217,000 fraud has had its hopes of recompense from its bankers dashed by the High Court.
In a case which vividly highlights the need to carefully consider the tax implications of any major transaction before proceeding, a major hotel group has failed in a long-running battle to recover more than £700,000 in VAT it paid to professionals who advised it
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
