In a stunning victory for hundreds of criminal law firms – and a huge embarrassment for the Government – the High Court has struck down a cornerstone of the Lord Chancellor’s controversial reforms of the
Auctions website eBay is well known to be a battleground of fierce competition but rival sellers of plastic cupcake stands have fallen out so badly that they have taken their trade dispute to the High
In a warning to flat dwellers that a stake in a management company is not always a panacea, lengthy litigation and a Court of Appeal ruling were necessary to break a deadlock which set tenant
A leading firm of solicitors which was sued for alleged professional negligence after a property transaction went badly wrong, ending up bogged down in a costly arbitration process, has been exonerated by the High Court.
A senior estate agent, who was moved from a lucrative area manager’s post to take charge of a number of unprofitable ‘graveyard’ offices, has succeeded in an unfair dismissal claim – but will not receive
A company which specialises in sourcing financial products for independent financial advisers has triumphed in a claim for damages and unpaid commission in respect of its efforts in successfully marketing a student accommodation investment fund.
In a cautionary tale which underlined the vulnerability of cash transfer systems to fraud, a drilling company paid £470,000 into the wrong bank account after it was contacted by a fraudster shortly before the Christmas
A former banker whose tortuous brush with employment law earned him a damages award which failed even to cover his legal costs has won at least some recompense from a negligent law firm which admitted
A farmer who submitted fraudulent VAT repayment claims, based on false invoices which he had created, has been sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment. The farmer’s fraudulent claims totalled more than £1.4 million and, after he
The curtain has been raised on an unusual commercial dispute between gaming technology companies triggered by an alleged software flaw which saw punters erroneously issued with winning lottery tickets worth many millions of pounds. Under
