In a ruling with critical implications for pension funds and insolvency practitioners, the Supreme Court has significantly watered down the right of pensioners who are left out of pocket when their employers go into administration to seek financial redress, via regulators, from other companies
In a ruling which makes clear that wise employers do not treat disciplinary hearings as mere formalities, a pastry chef who was dismissed after he used non-kosher jam to decorate a cake whilst working at a Jewish bakery has won compensation after a tribunal
In a case which illustrates that even the best laid tax management plans can come unstuck, an attempt to save substantial VAT by transferring a golf club’s sporting facilities to purportedly non-profit-making companies has been condemned as having the sole and essential aim of
In a ruling which helps to define the right balance between freedom of information rights and the beneficial maintenance of confidentiality in the resolution of commercial disputes, the First-Tier Tribunal has refused a campaigner’s request for public disclosure of large numbers of documents relating
In a case which bitterly underlines the good sense of seeking legal advice before entering into even apparently simple property transactions, a ‘naïve’ tenant who signed a lease on the basis of a fundamental error of law had to resort to costly litigation to
In a clear reminder that not every contractual term is written and that obligations may develop over time through ‘custom and practice’, the Court of Appeal has directed a fresh employment tribunal (ET) hearing of four unfairly dismissed bakery workers’ claims for enhanced redundancy
In a ruling which underlines that the cause of disasters can often be nothing more complicated than a fleeting moment of inattention, motor insurers face having to pay more than £2 million compensation after a motorist’s failure to engage his hand-brake triggered a potentially
In a case which bitterly illustrates that the law can be harsh if statutory time limits are not met, a patent holder has forfeited the valuable protection that would otherwise have been afforded to a medicinal product due to a failure to pay a £4,000
In the context of an industrial odour nuisance claim, the High Court has found that a proposed defendant to the case was not entitled to assert a limitation defence on the basis that its identity as an operator of a rendering plant during a
In a decision which helps to define the limits of employers’ vicarious liability for the culpable actions of their staff, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a police Chief Constable could not be held responsible in law for a campaign of harassment allegedly
