Property search companies have triumphed in their fight to be given free access to environmental information by local authorities. The First-Tier Tribunal ruled that allowing councils to levy even modest administrative charges to cover the
A man who turned a dilapidated dairy building into a self-contained ‘granny annexe’ has failed in a challenge to a refusal of retrospective planning permission for the development. The High Court ruled that a government
A construction company which, during an eight-year period, breached its obligations under the Income Tax (Construction Industry Scheme) Regulations 2005 to deduct tax at source from sums paid to sub-contractors has failed in an appeal
The First-Tier Tribunal has come to the aid of a negligent, but fundamentally honest, publican who failed to deduct PAYE from sums paid to part-time bar staff in the belief that their earnings fell well
The way has been opened for a landmark test case before the European Court of Justice which will determine the future course of human stem cell research. The court will consider whether artificially stimulated ova
In Simmonds v Milford Club, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that where there is a real concern that an earlier final written warning that was material in the decision to dismiss an employee may
The High Court has upheld a classroom ban on a Christian school teacher who condemned the ‘homosexual lifestyle’ in front of pupils. In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, a
The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission (LPC) regarding the adult and youth rates of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) payable for 2013/2014. However, the apprentice rate, which applies to apprentices
An emerging planning policy by which a local authority sought to impose a sliding scale of minimum distances between wind turbines and residential properties as a material consideration in planning decisions has been struck down
A construction company (the applicant) which claims that it is owed more than £12 million in respect of work it performed on the installation of a bio-ethanol processing plant may only recover four pence in
