In an embarrassing case for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), it has been ordered to pay up to £7 million in legal costs following a botched prosecution. The High Court found that the SFO’s handling
The Court of Appeal has criticised the ‘extraordinarily labyrinthine quality’ of import duty regulations in ‘reluctantly’ concluding that a mastectomy bra is an article of clothing, not an orthopaedic appliance, and is thus subject to
The power of judges does not extend to the mending of personal relationships, as a senior doctor discovered when the High Court refused to order his return to work almost four years after he was
In a warning to property investors that the advent of the Localism Act 2011 means that broad issues of community welfare may stand in the way of their plans, a tribunal has stepped in to
Buy-to-let property investors who were incensed when their ‘tracker’ mortgage rates were increased out of the blue have been told by a High Court judge that, had they read their contracts carefully, they would not
E-cigarettes are becoming more and more popular and, as is common when an innovation occurs, the law struggles to keep up. In a recent case, the Employment Tribunal (ET) had to consider a claim for
In a fresh warning to companies that falling out with the tax authorities can have the most severe consequences, a Court of Appeal ruling has significantly boosted the armoury of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)
In a vitally important decision for public sector workers, the High Court has ruled that a government department had no lawful right to unilaterally change the terms of its employees’ contracts to their detriment without
Most commercial tenants will know that they have a right to apply for new tenancies at the end their leases. However, many will be ignorant of the fact that their security of tenure can be
In May 2013, in a decision involving the protective awards payable to employees made redundant by Woolworths and Ethel Austin, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that the words ‘at one establishment’ in Section 188
