In a decision which clarified the position of third parties to commercial contracts, the High Court has blocked proposals to adjudicate a £4 million dispute concerning alleged flaws in the chilled water cooling system serving
A publishing company employee who was sacked for whistleblowing has won more than £18,000 in damages after the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) rejected arguments that her own blameworthiness was such that her dismissal was inevitable.
A law firm which was targeted by a dissatisfied former client – who embarked on an Internet campaign of vilification which threatened to gravely damage its reputation – has been granted an anti-harassment injunction against
Football fans puzzling over where to put their cross in ‘spot the ball’ competitions may be surprised by a tribunal’s ruling that they are neither playing a game, nor taking a chance, and that the
Under the Equality Act 2010, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women in terms of their pay and conditions where they are in the same employment and are doing the
Employers are reminded that the following changes to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates came into effect today, 1 October 2014: the adult NMW rate increases from £6.31 to £6.50 per hour; the NMW
A disgruntled employment agency which launched High Court proceedings after its biggest client dropped it and moved its custom elsewhere has won only modest damages after its accusations of fraudulent misrepresentation were rejected. The agency,
A leading state secondary school which was incensed when a similarly-titled private adult education college opened just 500 metres away has failed in a High Court bid to force the latter to change its name
In a reminder to entrepreneurs that the tax authorities are wide awake and alert to accounting discrepancies, a businessman who under-declared his dividends on the mistaken basis that his wife owned 25 per cent of
From 1 October 2014, an expectant father or the partner (including a same sex partner) of a pregnant woman will be entitled to take unpaid time off work to accompany the woman to up to
