Where a laboratory worker employed in a safety-critical field frankly admitted falsifying records, his dismissal was fair and a finding to the contrary reached by the lay members of the Employment Tribunal (ET) was perverse, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled (SPS Technologies Limited
Cracks discovered in giant waste recycling machines were probably caused in transit as they were transported along rough eastern European roads, the Court of Appeal has ruled in resolving a dispute between insurers over where financial liability for the damage should fall. Minute cracks were
The operator of the ‘Nectar’ loyalty card scheme has achieved a major victory over Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs after the Supreme Court accepted that it is entitled, for the purposes of VAT, to reclaim input tax on service charges it pays to retailers who
A widow whose sailor husband disappeared from the deck of a merchant ship in mid-Atlantic will not receive £150,000 in death benefits under his contract of employment after the Court of Appeal ruled that he probably took his own life. The deceased’s contract had stated
More than £20 million lost by a businessman in respect of film distribution activity could not be set off against his income for tax purposes because the various loss-making transactions were neither in the nature of trade nor were they on a fully commercial basis,
The extent of the discretion of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal (LVT) to vary the terms of leases to cure defects and achieve fairness between the parties has been clarified by the Upper Tribunal (UT). Emphasising the broad terms of the power contained within section 38(1)
A cheating gambler who persisted in harassing employees of a national bookmaking chain within minutes of being warned to desist by a judge has been committed to prison for 12 months for his flagrant contempt of court. The man had mounted a campaign against employees
Members of a prominent family who borrowed more than £50 million on the security of a high-end portfolio of London properties have failed to convince the High Court that they were unfairly treated by their bank. Opening the way for the bank to seek possession
The Court of Appeal has underlined the overriding objective of fairness to all parties in ruling that there was no error of law in the refusal of the Employment Tribunal (ET) to grant a claimant’s application for an adjournment on medical grounds. The Court noted
An NHS Trust which tried to debit more than £80,000 from the remuneration of its private catering contractors in respect of a one-day-old chocolate mousse has nevertheless triumphed in a breach of contract claim. In finding that the contractors had not been entitled to terminate
