In a ruling which underlines the limited role of non-statutory consultees in the planning process, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a local authority’s planning committee was entitled to ignore the views of an
A threat to land values along the course of the Manchester Ship Canal has been lifted by a Court of Appeal ruling that sluices that have regulated the waterway’s flow for more than a century
In Ashcourt Rowan Financial Planning Limited v Hall, the High Court ruled that a restrictive covenant contained in the employment contract of a senior financial adviser was unenforceable. Ashcourt Rowan Financial Planning Limited provides financial
An insurance broker who moved from one employer to another, taking his extensive network of clients with him in breach of a restrictive covenant in his employment contract, has been ordered to pay damages. The
The strength of Britain’s anti-money laundering regime has been underlined after the High Court opened the way for seizure of $7 million from a London bank account on the basis that it was the product
In a ruling which illustrates the difficulties of enforcing bankruptcy orders against residential property, a businessman has scored a High Court success in his fight to wrestle control of a crumbling Victorian pier from a
An adjudicator’s award of almost £400,000 to a building maintenance company whose contract with a housing association was prematurely terminated has been overturned by the High Court on the basis that either party was entitled
A tax settlement agreed between Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and investment bank, Goldman Sachs, was infected by a fundamental factual error and consideration of irrelevant matters – in particular the ‘potential embarrassment’ of
The Court of Appeal has come to the aid of a landowner who is facing a £1.6 million debt claim in respect of a residential development that reached completion just as the property market collapsed.
In a ruling which helps to define the concept of ‘public open space’, the High Court has rejected a challenge to a tree preservation order (TPO) brought by the owners of a landed estate who
