In giving guidance on the appropriate level of protection employers must give their staff against the risk of violent crime, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a betting shop cashier who was traumatised during the course of an armed robbery should not have
The Government’s response to the public consultation on the introduction of an opposition ‘fast track’ procedure within the Trade Mark Tribunal has been published today. The fast track procedure aims to make it easier for businesses, especially SMEs, by reducing the cost, complexity and
In a ruling which vividly underlines that even public authorities are not entitled to sit on their hands when faced by court proceedings, an Italian local authority has been ordered to pay more than € 36 million to two banks with whom it entered
In the context of a contract dispute relating to a major power up-grade on the London Underground, the High Court has ruled that an adjudicator’s decision was invalidated by a serious breach of natural justice. The adjudicator had decided one of the central issues
The charitable trust set up to allow commercial property owners to take advantage of the relief given against business rates for charity occupation of commercial premises has been wound up. A court ruling decided that the Public Safety Charitable Trust’s minimal occupation of
In the context of a high-value contractual dispute in respect of the sale of shares in an eastern European satellite television company, the High Court has rejected the buyers’ plea that they were not obliged to pay a €4.19 million tranche of the agreed
In a cautionary tale of which all product inventors should take note, a design student who came up with the idea for an innovative ride-on children’s suitcase that achieved phenomenal, worldwide, success very nearly lost out to a competitor due to a delay in
In a telling sign of the insurance industry’s toughening stance on ubiquitous ‘cash-for-crash’ frauds, a taxi driver who alleged that he had been badly injured in a road accident will go without a penny in compensation after a judge found that he was implicated
A wife who risked everything she had in her desperate attempt to protect her children and keep her fraudster husband out of jail has won more than £67,000 damages from solicitors who negligently failed to advise her that signing her assets away was very
In an important decision which involved re-consideration of the long-standing limits on employees recovering damages for losses arising from the manner of their dismissal, a former primary school secretary who says that she was ordered to clear her desk and ‘paraded’ off the premises
