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 have been manifestly inappropriate, it will be necessary for the
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 judge rejected an appeal by the science teacher against the
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 under 19 or those over 19 and in the first
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 as unlawful. The High Court ruled that the emerging policy
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 the pound after the company with which it contracted (the
Following the Court of Appeal’s ruling in a case of vital importance to the legal profession, solicitors’ firms will have to exercise extreme caution in providing financial support to impecunious clients to enable them to engage in litigation. The court’s decision raises the spectre of
The manufacturer of a gasket, used to divide and seal glass room partitions, has established that its patent is valid and that it was infringed by a rival company’s product. Arguments that the gasket’s design was obvious and lacking in novelty were dismissed by the
More than five years after legal proceedings were instituted by one of the victims of an intricate anti-competitive cartel that stretched across the world the High Court has paved the way for the matter to finally come to trial. In a ruling which raised important
Reinsurers have failed in a High Court bid to avoid potential liability for a $28 million claim in respect of a crude oil storage tank in Kuwait that was damaged after settling on unsure foundations. The court rejected the reinsurers’ plea that insurers had admitted
Proposals for up to 175 new homes on the edge of a Berkshire village have been boosted after the High Court ruled that the civil servant who blocked the plans made an error of law in failing to take into account a ministerial statement in
