Google Inc. has failed to block landmark High Court proceedings brought by three disgruntled Internet users who say that they were caused ‘acute distress and anxiety’ due to the tracking and collation of their private
The debate that has raged for more than 15 years since Parliament introduced the controversial three-year time limit on claims for repayment of VAT came under the legal spotlight as a local authority tried –
In a telling example of commercial dishonesty leading to ruin, a businessman who failed to reveal his chequered history when raising funds for the purchase of a well-known football club is facing an £18 million
The tragic deaths of four miners in South Wales has led to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) bringing criminal charges against the owners of the mine under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.
A hot air ballooning company will enjoy a substantial cash-flow advantage after it convinced the First-tier Tribunal that VAT is chargeable on its gift vouchers not when they are paid for but when they are
London councils who were refused exemptions from a fundamental shift in planning policy – designed to tackle the acute housing shortage by allowing the wholesale conversion of offices into homes without planning consent – have
When an adjudication decision is made in a contractual dispute, does the ‘clock’ start again for bringing an action? That was the question before the Court of Appeal recently. In the case in point, the
In a vivid warning to the business community that embittered ex-staff members can sometimes return with a vengeance, a disgruntled computer expert who used his technical skills to take retribution on his former employers after
Tenants of England’s most valuable out-of-town retail park have achieved a 10 per cent reduction in their business rates after convincing a tribunal that their trade was significantly hit by the £350 million extension of
When two innocent collectors each paid £1 million or more to a ‘rogue’ classic car dealer for the same McLaren Formula 1 racing car, only one of them could obtain good title to the vehicle
