The Government has announced that the protections available to whistleblowers are to be strengthened further. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill will amend the law so that individuals who make a protected disclosure against their
The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) has determined where liabilities should fall consequent upon a very substantial over-run in the cost of a Ministry of Defence (MoD) project to design and construct a nuclear submarines
In a ruling which will send shock waves through the pharmaceutical industry, a judge has decided that the European patent protecting the UK’s most successful anti-malarial prophylactic is invalid. In upholding arguments put forward by
In the context of an abortive contract for the sale of a substantial quantity of grain, the Commercial Court has ruled that the agreement was not necessarily stymied by a temporary ban on wheat exports
A businessman who won a landmark ruling that a credit reference agency had breached its duty under the Data Protection Act 1998 by wrongly branding him a bankrupt has had his victory turned to ashes
In the context of unfair prejudice petitions in which allegations of wrongdoing were made against, inter alia, two members of the ruling family of a foreign state, the Companies Court has emphatically upheld the principle of
In the context of a contractual dispute over the $37.5 million sale of two large gas plants, the Commercial Court has ruled that the seller is entitled to retain $7.5 million in instalments remitted by
An Australian wine exporter that terminated its relationship with its English agent and distributor following the latter entering administration is beneficially entitled to sums paid by customers for wine supplies since the date of termination,
Unfortunate private investors in a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which was marketed as low risk – but the main assets of which were revealed as ‘mere shams’ in the wake of its collapse – may
An £8 million fine imposed by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on a trading company that engaged in deliberate manipulation of the stock market for its own profit and to the detriment of other investors
