In the context of a construction dispute where legal costs bills vastly exceeded the sums that were realistically recoverable and ended up ‘wagging the dog’, the High Court has sent a powerful message to litigants that it is often better to settle their differences
A landowner who failed to clear his agricultural holding of inappropriate development despite receiving a £250,000 fine for his repeated breaches of planning control has been given a suspended prison sentence for his contempt of court. The man was given 28 days in order
A devoutly Christian bed & breakfast landlady who was ordered to compensate a gay couple after refusing to put them in a room with a double bed has failed in an appeal against the decision but has been granted permission to argue her case before
Under Section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA), employers have a duty to consult with appropriate representatives of employees concerning forthcoming redundancies if 20 or more employees are to be dismissed ‘at one establishment’ within a 90 day
In a case which starkly illustrated the uncomfortable fact that the biggest threat to business success may come from within, the High Court has come to the aid of a financial services company whose trust was betrayed by a corrupt and dishonest employee who
In emphasising that the purpose of the appellate process is to correct errors of law and that it is only very rarely appropriate to challenge a trial judge’s findings of fact, the Court of Appeal has roundly rejected a bank’s allegations of dishonesty against
In City and County of Swansea v Gayle, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that the Employment Tribunal (ET) was in error in finding that an employer’s use of covert video surveillance to check up on an employee suspected of playing squash when
In a ruling which illustrates that even corporate titans can fall foul of intellectual property laws, Microsoft Corporation will have to re-christen its ‘SkyDrive’ cloud storage service after a judge found that the name violated trademarks held by British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSB) and
In a ruling that gives useful guidance on the tax treatment of employment-related share options, the First-Tier Tribunal has rejected a taxpayer’s appeal against a substantial tax demand notwithstanding his plea that he joined his employer’s capital accumulation plan (CAP) prior to the coming
A group of slaughterhouse and cutting plant owners who received unwelcome bills from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will not have to pay them after the High Court ruled that the charges sought to be levied were authorised neither by European Union nor domestic
