An Islamic prison chaplain who complained that Christian colleagues were generally paid more than him due to their greater length of service has had his race and religious discrimination claims dismissed by the Employment Appeal
Confectionary giant Nestlé will have to fight its case before the European Court of Justice if it wishes to establish a perpetual monopoly, via trade mark protection, in the distinctive, four-finger, shape of its best-selling
A world-renowned belly dancer who has performed for royalty will have to stomach a costly defeat in her battle with the tax authorities after a tribunal ruled that the private tuition that she gives her
A pharmaceutical company that got its fingers badly burned when it entered into an interest rate swap in an attempt to hedge itself against fluctuations in interest rates has ended up with a bill for
In a case which makes plain that a single home may have two front doors, the Upper Tribunal (UT) has ruled that it is legally possible for adjoining properties occupied by one large family to
Google Inc. has failed to block landmark High Court proceedings brought by three disgruntled Internet users who say that they were caused ‘acute distress and anxiety’ due to the tracking and collation of their private
A Turkish manufacturer which failed to deliver a consignment of high-tensile steel to Hong Kong is facing a multi-million-dollar bill after failing to convince the High Court that it had never agreed to a London
As every gardener knows, conventional garden hoses have an infuriating tendency to kink and tangle. However, the problem of untidy sheds looks like being solved once and for all by a ground-breaking new product that
The debate that has raged for more than 15 years since Parliament introduced the controversial three-year time limit on claims for repayment of VAT came under the legal spotlight as a local authority tried –
A local resident’s concerns about a major redevelopment of a Cheshire town threw into sharp perspective the difficult balance that has to be struck between commercial confidentiality, legal professional privilege (LPP) and the public’s ‘right
