Legal News

A property investor who built up reputation and goodwill in a website that he used to market a luxury apartment for rent in Gleneagles, the home of golf, has triumphed in a dispute with a

A long-standing and valuable patent, protecting sustained release versions of a market leading anti-psychotic drug, has been declared invalid due to the absence of any inventive steps in formulation that would not have been ‘obvious’

Covent Garden Market employers have triumphed in a long-running employment dispute with five registered porters who argued that they were entitled to be paid porterage fees in respect of the toil of their unregistered colleagues.

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act has now received Royal Assent. The Act is wide ranging. It contains many new measures, such as giving shareholders more say on directors’ pay, making reforms to Employment Tribunal

A local authority’s controversial proposals to outsource swathes of its public duties to the private sector have been given the green light by the High Court. Ruling that, save in one respect, a local resident’s

A company has triumphed in its appeal against a £900 penalty imposed in respect of late filing of its annual return after the First-Tier Tribunal accepted that its principal director’s illness during the whole of

In a case which underlines the need for precision in the drafting of construction contracts, a plethora of apparently conflicting documents in respect of a major hydro-electricity project necessitated the intervention of the High Court

In the context of a ‘somewhat chequered’ public tendering exercise, the High Court has ordered disclosure of evidence to an unsuccessful bidder who claims that the process was undermined by fundamental errors and unfairness. The