In the context of a construction dispute where legal costs bills vastly exceeded the sums that were realistically recoverable and ended up ‘wagging the dog’, the High Court has sent a powerful message to
A landowner who failed to clear his agricultural holding of inappropriate development despite receiving a £250,000 fine for his repeated breaches of planning control has been given a suspended prison sentence for his contempt
A devoutly Christian bed & breakfast landlady who was ordered to compensate a gay couple after refusing to put them in a room with a double bed has failed in an appeal against the decision
Under Section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULRCA), employers have a duty to consult with appropriate representatives of employees concerning forthcoming redundancies if 20 or more employees are
In a case which starkly illustrated the uncomfortable fact that the biggest threat to business success may come from within, the High Court has come to the aid of a financial services company whose
In emphasising that the purpose of the appellate process is to correct errors of law and that it is only very rarely appropriate to challenge a trial judge’s findings of fact, the Court of
In City and County of Swansea v Gayle, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that the Employment Tribunal (ET) was in error in finding that an employer’s use of covert video surveillance to
In a ruling which illustrates that even corporate titans can fall foul of intellectual property laws, Microsoft Corporation will have to re-christen its ‘SkyDrive’ cloud storage service after a judge found that the name
In a ruling that gives useful guidance on the tax treatment of employment-related share options, the First-Tier Tribunal has rejected a taxpayer’s appeal against a substantial tax demand notwithstanding his plea that he joined
A group of slaughterhouse and cutting plant owners who received unwelcome bills from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) will not have to pay them after the High Court ruled that the charges sought to
