In taking the very unusual step of granting a protective costs order to a concerned resident who is challenging the grant of planning permission for a wind farm, the High Court has acknowledged that such developments are ‘very much a hot potato’ in planning terms.
A bank that erroneously discharged its mortgage security over a residential property owned by a fraudster has had its mistake put right by a judge. The High Court’s decision means that the bank will take top priority in a list of the fraudster’s creditors who
Seven Supreme Court justices are to consider a landmark ‘big money’ divorce case that has caused huge controversy and exposed a fundamental rift between family and commercial lawyers in respect of the correct treatment of corporate assets when it comes to assessing the true wealth
A college teaching accountancy and management skills which was stripped of its licence to sponsor overseas students entering the United Kingdom after investigations revealed a number of ‘deficiencies’ in its record-keeping and other practices has failed to convince the High Court that it was unfairly
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
