A restrictive covenant entitling long leaseholders of a block of flats to veto building work on an adjoining plot of land has been ruled enforceable. However, the High Court has implied a term into the covenant that tenants’ consent to the construction of a new
A man who lost his savings in an ill-fated attempt to buy a holiday home in Cyprus which never progressed beyond a shell must now also pay tax on interest earned on the contents of a foreign bank account of which he never received a
A Catholic journalist who was upset and offended by a senior colleague’s foul-mouthed reference to the Pope has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that he was a victim of religious harassment. The words used by the editor were ‘merely an expression of
A salesman has failed to convince the first-tier tribunal that a sum he received on termination of his employment was effectively a redundancy payment the first £30,000 of which should have been treated as free from tax. The tribunal ruled that he had been entitled
The UK’s six largest internet service providers have been ordered by the High Court to take steps to block, or at least impede, public access to three popular file-sharing websites which have engaged in copyright infringement on an industrial scale. The court ruled that the
The occupant of one of Newcastle’s best-loved buildings, home to generations of wardens who tended the city’s Nuns Moor Park, has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that he has the right to continue living in the house indefinitely following the departure of his
One of the highest-profile divorce cases in recent years has settled, after more that four years of wrangling. The case is noteworthy not only for the massive sums involved (the eventual out-of-court settlement was valued at £15 million), but also for the unconventional means by
Two consultation documents have been published that relate to more flexible working practices Firstly, the Government is seeking opinions on how its proposed shared parental leave reforms should work in practice. View the consultation document . The closing date for submissions is 17 May 2013.
A landowner who demolished light industrial units, replacing them with larger ones, has failed in a High Court bid to overturn an enforcement notice requiring him to tear them down. The court dismissed as ‘unsustainable’ arguments that the enforcement notice was at odds with existing
Employment tribunals and their users alike have been told to ‘take heed’ of the need to take a ‘firm grip’ on proceedings to ensure conservation of public funds. The Court of Appeal expressed disquiet that an unfair dismissal claim that raised relatively straightforward issues had
