HM Revenue and Customs have announced that they now have details of more than 100 UK resident beneficiaries of trusts and company arrangements in offshore tax havens and the more than 200 tax advisors responsible
The operators of a children’s nursery which was issued with a ‘notice to improve’ by education regulator Ofsted after pre-school age children were left inadequately supervised for five minutes has failed in a challenge to
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
