The operators of a children’s nursery which was issued with a ‘notice to improve’ by education regulator Ofsted after pre-school age children were left inadequately supervised for five minutes has failed in a challenge to the decision. The High Court ruled that the notice was
In a ruling which underlines the limited role of non-statutory consultees in the planning process, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a local authority’s planning committee was entitled to ignore the views of an informal consultative body prior to granting consent for a substantial
A threat to land values along the course of the Manchester Ship Canal has been lifted by a Court of Appeal ruling that sluices that have regulated the waterway’s flow for more than a century were wrongly classified as formal flood defences by the Environment
In Ashcourt Rowan Financial Planning Limited v Hall, the High Court ruled that a restrictive covenant contained in the employment contract of a senior financial adviser was unenforceable. Ashcourt Rowan Financial Planning Limited provides financial advice to corporate and high net worth clients. The company
An insurance broker who moved from one employer to another, taking his extensive network of clients with him in breach of a restrictive covenant in his employment contract, has been ordered to pay damages. The High Court ruled that the non-solicitation clause was both reasonable
The strength of Britain’s anti-money laundering regime has been underlined after the High Court opened the way for seizure of $7 million from a London bank account on the basis that it was the product of serious financial crime across several jurisdictions. The court’s decision
In a ruling which illustrates the difficulties of enforcing bankruptcy orders against residential property, a businessman has scored a High Court success in his fight to wrestle control of a crumbling Victorian pier from a local authority. The court ordered reconsideration of the man’s arguments
An adjudicator’s award of almost £400,000 to a building maintenance company whose contract with a housing association was prematurely terminated has been overturned by the High Court on the basis that either party was entitled to withdraw from the agreement on three months’ notice without
A tax settlement agreed between Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and investment bank, Goldman Sachs, was infected by a fundamental factual error and consideration of irrelevant matters – in particular the ‘potential embarrassment’ of the Chancellor of the Exchequer – but was nevertheless lawful,
The Court of Appeal has come to the aid of a landowner who is facing a £1.6 million debt claim in respect of a residential development that reached completion just as the property market collapsed. The court breathed new life into the woman’s case after
