Planning Inquiries and Natural Justice
In an important ruling which will have a significant impact on the future conduct of planning inquiries, the Court of Appeal has ruled that an inspector did not act unfairly or in breach of natural
In an important ruling which will have a significant impact on the future conduct of planning inquiries, the Court of Appeal has ruled that an inspector did not act unfairly or in breach of natural
In a stern warning to litigants that Sir Rupert Jackson’s reforms of civil procedure are being robustly enforced, a firm of estate agents came within an ace of missing out on the chance of a
In a stern warning to litigants that Sir Rupert Jackson’s reforms of civil procedure are being robustly enforced, a firm of estate agents came within an ace of missing out on the chance of a
A High Court decision has dealt with the consequences of a mathematical error in the industry standard used in the design of foundations of offshore wind farms that resulted in the unexpected settling of 60
Budding property developers tempted to dispense with legal assistance in drawing up contracts should take note of a High Court case in which a businessman paid a crushing price for signing his name on a
In a ruling which underlined that, in commercial litigation, timing can be all important, alleged victims of an illegal price-fixing cartel have had their compensation hopes dashed by the Supreme Court after they launched proceedings
A warehouse manager who was sacked for disobeying an instruction to load four banoffee pies onto a lorry before he went home at the end of his shift has been stripped of his right to
Yacht brokers who claimed a 10 per cent commission on the Euros 19.8 million sale of a superyacht between wealthy Russian businessman will not receive a penny after the High Court ruled that they had
In a highly unusual case, an entrepreneur has triumphed in an intellectual property action against an insurance company that used his innovative software package without permission – despite his own ‘manifest and repeated dishonesty’. The
Surveyors and lawyers are each facing £100,000 bills after the High Court ruled that they were equally to blame for a debacle in which a residential property was valued at almost double the sum for