In a case which put the spotlight on the often tense relationship between corporate boardrooms and the press, a company is taking legal action against one of its former non-executive directors, claiming that he was
Those who fund commercial litigation in the hope of profit should take note of a case in which financial supporters of a wholly unsuccessful claim to a stake in highly lucrative oil fields ended up
In a guideline case which underlined the need for total honesty when communicating with insurers, the owners of a vessel which suffered more than Euros 3 million of damage in a near-sinking will go without
In enforcing the full rigour of green belt protection policies following an important test case, the Court of Appeal has scotched controversial plans for the expansion of a Surrey aerodrome and the replacement of grass
Further to the ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that remuneration received by employees for ‘non-guaranteed’ overtime which they routinely worked as part of a ‘settled pattern’ of their employment should be included when
In a case which raised vital issues in respect of the personal legal responsibility of corporate officers, a tycoon who lost millions after buying an executive jet which he said did not come up to
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published provisional statistics for the year April 2013 to March 2014 which show that an estimated 28.2 million working days were lost through injury and ill health. In
In an illustration of the legal tangle that building disputes can so easily become, the owner of a flat, who was fully entitled to sack a contractor who let him down, has nevertheless failed to
A fire at well-known nightclub The Sugar Hut – where television show ‘The Only Way is Essex’ (TOWIE) was subsequently filmed – led to a rash of High Court litigation and a million-pound-plus damages award
In a startling case which exposed bitter strife at managerial level within an NHS trust, a senior employee who was sworn at and threatened by a colleague has nevertheless failed to convince a judge that
