Litigation Updates

In a stern warning to homeowners that it pays to get along with the neighbours, a pensioner is facing up to crushing legal bills after losing out in a marathon struggle with the couple

In a case which some might view as a testimony to the wisdom of compromise, the bitterly opposed parties to a contract for the provision and maintenance of specialist software for mobile phones resorted

An ‘extremely tragic’ £50 million divorce case in which a family is ‘tearing itself apart’ has evoked ‘nothing but despair’ from a High Court judge, who lamented the missed opportunities to compromise and the

In a case which tested the limits of the High Court’s power to act as an ‘international policeman’, the Court has declined to make an asset freezing order in respect of a $60 million

In a decision which gives important guidance on the scope of remedies available for losses suffered due to breaches of competition law, the Court of Appeal has ruled out a conspiracy claim by one

In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has quashed the Government’s decision to close down the £359 million Independent Living Fund which provides vital support to thousands of severely disabled people with the

In what a judge acknowledged to be a classic illustration of the maxim ‘never go into business with either family or friends’, former close associates who fell out bitterly over the profits from a

In tackling the fall-out from a commercially disastrous project to build a world-class pleasure gardens in east London in time for the 2012 Olympics, the High Court has dismissed a building company’s claims that

The truism that honesty is its own reward will come as little comfort to a scrupulous builder who will go without a penny after handing in to police nearly £18,000 that he found stashed