Apartment owners who complained of ‘excessively bouncy’ floors, smelly drains and sound insulation so poor that they can hear their neighbours’ footsteps have won more than £800,000 compensation from the developers of the residential block
It has been 12 years since the collapse of insurer Equitable Life, which had more than a million members. In that time, the financial pieces have been picked up and a compensation pot of £370
In a ruling which underlines the pitfalls of the PAYE system, a tribunal has expressed sympathy for a worker who says that he was issued with a substantial retrospective tax demand due to a calculation
Because of the data protection risks they pose and their widespread use, mobile phone apps are currently a priority for the EU data protection authorities. The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has recently submitted
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have announced that a clutch of Caribbean tax havens – Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands – are to supply them with information
A deal between the tax authorities and banking giant, Goldman Sachs, has caused ‘grave public disquiet’ and should be declared unlawful, it has been argued at the High Court. The unprecedented case is being brought
A property investor who built up reputation and goodwill in a website that he used to market a luxury apartment for rent in Gleneagles, the home of golf, has triumphed in a dispute with a
A long-standing and valuable patent, protecting sustained release versions of a market leading anti-psychotic drug, has been declared invalid due to the absence of any inventive steps in formulation that would not have been ‘obvious’
Covent Garden Market employers have triumphed in a long-running employment dispute with five registered porters who argued that they were entitled to be paid porterage fees in respect of the toil of their unregistered colleagues.
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has now received Royal Assent. The Act is wide ranging. It contains many new measures, such as giving shareholders more say on directors’ pay, making reforms to Employment Tribunal
