Neighbours’ disputes can get badly out of hand – but lawyers are trained to defuse ill-feeling and foster compromise. In one case, a couple who engaged in a fruitless six-year boundary dispute, largely without legal
Any level-headed lawyer will warn you that litigation is not for the faint-hearted and that compromise is almost always a better option. In one case that proved the point, neighbours ran up legal costs of
Leases generally mean what they say and judges will only imply additional terms where to do so is necessary to achieve sense or business efficacy. That point was made in a case in which a
A controversial shift in government policy – designed to boost house building but which means that smaller residential developments will no longer have to include affordable homes – has received the blessing of the Court
Those at the helm of companies are obliged by law to put their own interests second to those of shareholders. In one case that highlighted the point, a logistics company had launched proceedings against its
In a resounding victory for trade unions and their civil servant members, a judge has ruled that long-standing arrangements whereby union subscriptions are deducted from staff pay packets have contractual force and, at least so
Is a genuinely held conviction that wasting public money is wrong a ‘philosophical belief’ that qualifies for protection under the Equality Act 2010? The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered that issue in the context of
The Court of Appeal has underlined in an important decision that tax avoidance schemes may be strictly in accordance with legislation but still be ineffective. The case involved a university which made an ultimately abortive
It is a surprisingly common misconception that written contracts only become effective when signatures are appended. One Court of Appeal case, involving a cookware company and the producers of a popular television cooking show, underlined
Corporate democracy and transparency demand that public companies must generally disclose their shareholder registers to anyone who asks to see them. However, in a case of interest to anyone involved in corporate governance, the High
