Wealthy families with valuable art collections on the wall will be celebrating after the Court of Appeal ruled that a Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece which was sold for £9.4 million at Sotheby’s was a piece
A leading firm of solicitors has been ordered to pay more than £1.6 million in damages for professional negligence after a busy lawyer misunderstood or misremembered his client’s instructions when drafting a partnership agreement. The
Following extensive litigation, with more than $1 million at stake, the High Court has found that an apparently complex dispute relating to an abortive oil trading contract is in the end likely to come down
The Government has accepted the recommendations put forward in the Low Pay Commission’s annual report 2014 for the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates for 2014/2015. The following changes will come into effect on 1 October
The Mormon Church has failed in its long-running campaign to show that the refusal of a full business rates exemption for its temple in Preston, Lancashire, amounted to unlawful discrimination and a violation of its
In a case of interest to anyone engaged in cross-border litigation, the High Court has declined jurisdiction in a big money insolvency dispute on the basis that the courts of Saudi Arabia are ‘clearly and
The Government has announced that from 30 June 2014 the right to request flexible working arrangements will be extended to all employees, provided they have worked for their employer for 26 weeks continuously at the
An astute businessman who bought a £298,000 power boat in the hope of winning catering contracts for glamorous offshore racing events has failed to convince a tax tribunal that the purchase was part of an
In a dramatic example of European free trade laws being put into practical effect, a local authority is facing a £1.5 million damages claim after taking the ‘moral and political’ – but hasty and legally
Britain’s Freemasons will be deeply disappointed by a tax tribunal’s ruling that their governing Grand Lodge is not sufficiently ‘philosophical’ or ‘philanthropic’ to qualify for a VAT exemption potentially worth millions. The United Grand Lodge
