A property development company which was plunged into financial crisis by a catalogue of local authority maladministration will receive just £50,000 in compensation despite the Local Authority Ombudsman’s recommendation that it should be paid five
An international trading relationship that ‘got off to a bad start’ continued in the same vein with disputes over money, the arrest of a vessel at an Iranian port and, after much contractual wrangling, a
A Boots pharmacist whose career was destroyed when he was accused of stealing hundreds of perfume testers from the store he managed has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that he was unfairly
In tackling the often thorny problem of distinguishing between tenancies at will and protected periodic tenancies, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a tenant who stayed on after the expiry of his lease was
A highly successful entrepreneur who incurred a Capital Gains Tax (CGT) liability in excess of £760,000 on the sale of shares in his company has failed to convince the Court of Appeal that an accountancy
A company that invested more than £60 million in the port of Great Yarmouth over a six-year period, greatly boosting its income, has nevertheless failed in a High Court bid to take over as its
A part-time nurse who sought substantial compensation for the loss of almost 20 years’ worth of pension rights has failed to convince the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that her employer failed to take reasonable steps
In a case which highlighted the need for co-operation between opposing legal teams even in the most hotly contested litigation, the High Court has called for mediation and an end to procedural point scoring in
Wealthy families with valuable art collections on the wall will be celebrating after the Court of Appeal ruled that a Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece which was sold for £9.4 million at Sotheby’s was a piece
In a case which threw into stark relief the grave consequences of legal aid cuts in the civil justice system, a leading firm of solicitors has failed to convince the High Court that public funding
