In an important decision which gives guidance on the scope of English jurisdiction clauses in international trade contracts, the domestic courts have declined to hear a dispute in which an airline claimed that it
Where a commercial contract specifically stated that it included all the terms that had been agreed between the parties, arguments that further provisions had been added by implication or in the course of informal
A hard-working couple are facing retrospective tax demands totalling almost £600,000 after failing to persuade the First-tier Tribunal that they abandoned their UK residence when they departed to the continent in search of an
In upholding an award of more than £280,000 to a brickwork sub-contractor engaged in a major residential development, the High Court has emphasised that it will only very rarely interfere with adjudicators’ decisions –
The High Court has tested the boundaries of European Union competition laws in the context of a heated trade dispute which sprang from a critical shortage of a market-leading antiretroviral drug used for treating
A veteran fund manager who brought down the wrath of his former employer when he resigned and moved to a competitor has been issued with an injunction holding him to a ‘garden leave’ covenant
In a salutary reminder of how very tough it can be to obtain exemptions from tax, the Professional Golfers’ Association Limited (PGA) has failed to convince a tax tribunal that its members should be
In resolving a building dispute, the High Court has emphasised that Parliament has laid down a ‘relatively summary process’ for resolving contractual issues in such cases and that, in deciding the ambit of an
In the context of a financially disastrous hotel development, two companies involved in the project have failed to convince the High Court that a bank which held a floating charge over their assets had
The tax authorities have suffered a stinging defeat in a highly unusual case which involved in depth analysis of the business relationship between a phenomenally successful racing tipster and the punters who placed bets
