Family Which Defied Planning Laws Fined £20,000
Three members of a family who flouted planning laws and defied a judge by failing to clear caravans and scrap from their land have been spared jail for their contempt of court – but have
Court Deprecates Attack on Arbitrators’ Factual Findings
The High Court has deprecated the increasing number of cases in which dissatisfied parties to arbitration proceedings inappropriately seek to utilise Section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 to challenge findings of fact made against
Court Ponders Impact of High Seas Piracy on Charterparty
In a significant decision for the shipping industry, the High Court has ruled that a vessel owner’s insistence that it had the right to refuse to sail through the Gulf of Aden – where piracy
Neighbours’ War Over Nine Inches of Shed Space
In a bitter illustration of the grave financial consequences that can arise from a failure to compromise, neighbouring homeowners who engaged in costly legal warfare over just nine inches of shed space were each left
Court Green Lights Energy from Waste Development
An attempt by campaigners to stall construction of an incinerator and energy from waste facility has failed after the High Court rejected pleas that a local authority’s blunder had circumvented proper consideration of environmental issues
Shopper Strikes Landmark Blow for Consumer Rights
When a shopper bought a laptop computer on credit from a branch of PC World in 1998, he could not have imagined that the simple transaction would trigger a test case which, 15 years later,
Depressed Hospital Consultant Fails to Block Disciplinary Inquiry
A hospital consultant facing a number of allegations, including failing to respond to out-of-hours emergency calls and attempting to speed the progress of one of her private patients to the top of an NHS waiting
Leicester Will Solicitors raise £223,000 for Charities
Josiah Hincks Solicitors in Leicestershire have raised over £223,250 in future income as part of Free Wills Month in October 2013. Free Wills Month brings together a group of well respected charities to offer members
Developer’s Nightmare of Council Maladministration
A property development company which was plunged into financial crisis by a catalogue of local authority maladministration will receive just £50,000 in compensation despite the Local Authority Ombudsman’s recommendation that it should be paid five
High Court Rules on Ill-Fated Oil Shipping Contract
An international trading relationship that ‘got off to a bad start’ continued in the same vein with disputes over money, the arrest of a vessel at an Iranian port and, after much contractual wrangling, a