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A businessman has been held personally liable for debts of more than $12 million even though he was not a party to the loan agreements which created the debt. The High Court ruled that a

In an important ruling for employers and the insurance industry, a sole director and shareholder who sued his own company after his finger was sliced off in a workplace accident has had his compensation hopes

The controversial HS2 high-speed rail scheme has suffered a setback after the High Court ruled that the consultation process in respect of compensation to be paid to property owners affected by the multi-billion-pound project ‘was

In the context of a $10 million dispute in respect of a metal trading contract, a judge was entitled to substitute his own views for those of arbitrators who had reached an  ‘obviously wrong’ conclusion,

A potential clash between one of Britain’s biggest regeneration projects and the re-opening of fuel terminals alongside the Manchester Ship Canal came under the High Court spotlight as landowners argued that they were being kept

A company that sued a trade rival for slander and malicious falsehood, claiming that an over-enthusiastic salesman had disparaged its business model to a potential customer, has had its case struck out on the basis

Arbitrators had no jurisdiction to resolve a contractual dispute between shipping companies because there had never been any binding charterparty between them, the High Court has ruled. A close analysis of email traffic between representatives

Motorists who receive parking penalties will at least have the comfort of knowing that they will not have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on their bills after a Court of Appeal ruling that they

A spread-betting company has triumphed in a High Court damages claim against a former senior employee who engaged in a series of fraudulent transactions over a three-year period. The company puts its losses resulting from