Signing personal guarantees in respect of loans made to your thriving business may seem virtually risk free. However, as a High Court case showed, times can sadly change and that is why legal advice is always necessary. The case concerned a professional firm that had
Many businesses rely heavily on Home Office licences that enable them to sponsor the entry into the UK of skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. As a High Court case showed, however, such licences are a privilege, not an entitlement, and can be
Countryside smells are recognised by planners to be a fact of rural life. In a case on point, the High Court upheld planning permission granted for an intensive poultry farm despite a campaigner’s concerns about unpleasant odours. A farmer wished to construct two poultry sheds,
Tenants and their loved ones enjoy legal protection against landlords and property professionals who abuse their position of power. In a striking case on point, lawyers representing a woman who was gravely mistreated by a letting agency’s staff won her the right to compensation. The
If charities are too similarly named there is an obvious risk of confusion on the part of donors and others. In tackling one such issue a tribunal had to consider whether the words ‘Islamic’ and ‘Muslim’ mean essentially the same thing. The Cambridge Islamic College
The new and highly controversial Electronic Communications Code – which enables telecommunications equipment to be effectively forced on reluctant landowners – has come under analysis for what is believed to be the first time in a tribunal case. Two mobile phone operators argued that they
All workers are entitled to rest breaks, but special rules apply to railway employees whose work is linked to timetables and the overriding need to keep public services running. In an important case for the industry, those rules have come under analysis in the Court
Supply chains can be lengthy and, when damage occurs to perishable goods in transit, it can be hard to pin down where responsibility lies. That was certainly so in a High Court case concerning a consignment of almost 12 tons of French cheese. The French
In a ground-breaking case, a heartbroken mother who was left traumatised after her daughter was born gravely disabled as a result of hospital negligence has won more than £75,000 in compensation from the NHS. The High Court found that the mother was a primary victim
There is no such thing as a perfect parent and the law presumes that it is best to keep families together, unless there is firm evidence that children are coming to significant harm. A family judge made that point in refusing to open the way
