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
A burgeoning waste recycling company which turned out to be grossly under-insured following a devastating fire at its factory has failed to convince the High Court that the brokers who arranged the cover were negligent.
Any company engaged in international trade should take note of a case in which two senior executives were jailed for their involvement in bribing corrupt foreign officials in an attempt to protect an export market
In a stunning victory for hundreds of criminal law firms – and a huge embarrassment for the Government – the High Court has struck down a cornerstone of the Lord Chancellor’s controversial reforms of the
Auctions website eBay is well known to be a battleground of fierce competition but rival sellers of plastic cupcake stands have fallen out so badly that they have taken their trade dispute to the High
In a warning to flat dwellers that a stake in a management company is not always a panacea, lengthy litigation and a Court of Appeal ruling were necessary to break a deadlock which set tenant
A leading firm of solicitors which was sued for alleged professional negligence after a property transaction went badly wrong, ending up bogged down in a costly arbitration process, has been exonerated by the High Court.
